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 common as ever” for the reason that new Hitman launched in 2016.
After the episodic launch of that title, IO put out Hitman 2 as a full package deal, and made the primary sport playable inside the sequel. It repeated this course of with 2021’s Hitman 3, and later folded the whole reboot trilogy right into a single live-service entity.
Based on IO, Assassination is “probably the most profitable Hitman sport of all time.” For some comparability, Hitman’s 2016 reboot had over 13 million gamers inside two years, and the complete 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 stated the video games have been a massive income driver for the corporate, and helped spark curiosity within the different entries of the trilogy.
Hitman shouldn’t be sufficient for IO Interactive
Wanting forward, IO stated 2025 would see extra post-launch content material come to World of Assassination. The title is being ported over to PlayStation VR2 in March.
Outdoors of Hitman, the studio is at present at work on a James Bond sport and a web-based RPG codenamed ‘Challenge Fantasy.’ It is also tapped to publish a proof of idea motion sport for Construct a Rocket Boy’s upcoming MMO, All over the place.
