IO Interactive’s Hitman: World of Assassination has topped over 75 million worldwide gamers. In its announcement, the Danish developer additional revealed the stealth sport reached 1 million gamers in December 2024, and “stays as well-liked as ever” because the new Hitman launched in 2016.
After the episodic launch of that title, IO put out Hitman 2 as a full bundle, and made the primary sport playable inside the sequel. It repeated this course of with 2021’s Hitman 3, and later folded the total reboot trilogy right into a single live-service entity.
In keeping with IO, Assassination is “essentially the most profitable Hitman sport of all time.” For some comparability, Hitman’s 2016 reboot had over 13 million gamers inside two years, and all the trilogy had accrued 50 million gamers months after Hitman 3’s launch.
The studio has usually touted the three video games’ participant rely over gross sales. However within the cases the place it has talked about gross sales, it is merely mentioned the video games have been a large income driver for the corporate, and helped spark curiosity within the different entries of the trilogy.
Hitman is just not sufficient for IO Interactive
Trying forward, IO mentioned 2025 would see extra post-launch content material come to World of Assassination. The title is being ported over to PlayStation VR2 in March.
Exterior of Hitman, the studio is at the moment at work on a James Bond sport and an internet RPG codenamed ‘Undertaking Fantasy.’ It is also tapped to publish a proof of idea motion sport for Construct a Rocket Boy’s upcoming MMO, In every single place.
