Dungeon Defenders sales hit 250K, majority on PC

The little co-op tower defense action game that could, Dungeon Defenders, has achieved 250,000 sales. A good start for Trendy Entertainment's solid game that came out during the big bad launch week of Batman: Arkham City. Actually, Batman's no-show on PC may have been a blessing for Dungeon Defenders, since it sold 200K units on PC alone, accounting for 80% of sales.

Trendy plans to continue supporting the title with community events for PS3 and Xbox 360 players, with details found in the gallery below (or downloadable here). The events will include special game modes with the devs and a chance to win unique loot.

Definitely check out Dungeon Defenders if you've got a group to play with . It's easily one of the best co-op experiences of the year with plenty of content.

Dungeon Defenders (Community Events)

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Trendy Entertainment Celebrates 200,000 Dungeon Defenders PC Units Sold, Releases Console Community Event Schedule

These Four Nifty Wallpapers Will Remind Fans When They Should Jump Online to Play Unique Game Modes with Trendy and Score Unique Gear!

Twain Harte, CA – November 2 – Trendy Entertainment, D3Publisher and Reverb Publishing announced today that its recently released action/tower defense/RPG mash-up Dungeon Defenders, with 200,000 units sold on PC alone, is a runaway success with over 250,000 sales total on all three platforms – Steam, Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation® Network. To celebrate, Trendy is announcing one of its many plans to continue to support the game across all platforms, with free, weekly community events for PS3 and Xbox 360 players. These events will allow gamers to play special game modes with the devs and have a chance to win unique loot found nowhere else.

The listing of these events can be found on the following wallpapers, which fans can use to remember when to hop on and play!

Download the Community Event Wallpapers Here: http://mirror1.trendyent.com/files/PR/CommunityEvents.zip

Dungeon Defenders brings together the best elements of tower defense and action-RPG progression in a fully 3D environment; spreading the four-player co-op mayhem out across 15 unique maps – 30 challenges, four difficulty settings – in all its loot-raiding, spell-casting, level-up stacking glory. Players control one of four distinct heroes – Squire, Apprentice, Huntress and Monk - in an epic bid to fight back an ancient evil. Each character comes with distinct functionalities, and players can create and customize an armory of weapons and equipment. The campaign, whether with friends or solo, has tons and tons of gameplay with hundreds of loot drops (all upgradeable and customizable) to make each character that much more distinct.

Reader Comments (31)

And they delayed the PC release to develop for consoles.

They probably could have sold more if it came out on time.

@Fox318

And released it first for iOS, I hope they learn from this...

Most multiplatform downloadable games outperform on PC. PC gamers are a lot more open to digital distribution.

Game deserves all the sales and more, it's one of the best this year.

@Oddgirl
Not only are they open to digital distribution they are also happy to try out indie-like titles and support the creators. Even if the creators are taking forever.

@(Unverified)

Huh... now that you mention it, the only indie game I have on my PS3 is PixelJunk. But on my PC, I have at least 30 indie games (from Hunble Bundles to Steam Indie packages to awesome games like Dungeon Defenders and Terraria).

At least in my case and the case of most of my friends, we play way more indie games and nearly all of our PC games are digitally distributed, whereas on consoles, we have very few indie games and most of our games are disc-based.

@Oddgirl Really? Care to explain this then? http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/15/torchlight-xbla-launch-provided-runic-its-best-sales-day-ever/

@nerdquest

That's why he said "most" mulitplatform downloadable games. Torchlight is one game, and it got tons of positive press prior to the release of its 360 version.

@killerjuice yeah, even Doom 1 and Duke Nukem used to be indie games. Used to be shareware, and you'd have to mail in to get the games (before they took off big time)

They deserve every sold copy of it + the Portal gun and TF2 characters were amazing additions!

It's a great game! Totally deserves it.

Between this and super meat boy and the success of PC only games like the Witcher 2, hopefully we'll get more and more attention from the big publishers.

@Kinthalis

Actually, I'd restrict that to the first Witcher game. The Witcher 2 is being worked on to come to the console market (and will have the major 2.0 update on disc).

@DevilSei

That's true, but up until the point until it gets released on consoles it has been PC exclusive, and CDPr has said they've been pleased with the sales/reception

@Draugdraugr Exactly my point.

I know it's coming to consoles, but that console porting was financed with the over a million sales on PC to date.

I don't mind PC's great games coming to consoles, the more gamers get to enjoy them the better (although I wish consoles would return the favor once in a while - Red Dead I'm looking at you!).

I just want the PC to get some love and attention from devs. We pay for good games that treat the platform right, so doing right by the platform is only going to have a positive impact on their bottom line.

I'm just happy they finally fixed the Halloween mode so that players can get the rare skins without needing to be level sixty and beat the stupidly hard insane mode.

Great news! The game is ADDICTING. I got Batman Arkham City, Battlefield 3 and Dungeon Defenders all at the same time and my play time is, BF3: 5 minutes, Arkham City: 2 hours, Dungeon Defenders: 20 hours!

Dungeon Defenders is obscenely fun and worth every penny. I only wish they'd patch the PS3 version (which I say pretty much every time the game is mentioned, but hey, I'm dedicating an inordinate amount of time to this thing and I'm becoming increasingly afraid I'll lose progress when the bug/trophy fixes hit).

Either way, if you enjoy couch co-op? Buy it. It's the most fun I've had since Borderlands.

@stiqlol +1 for the truth.

I tried to like it... The idea is solid, but the controls seemed so flaky and floaty that I couldn't get into it.
It doesn't help that XBLA already has three games in the genre (the tower-defense-with-action-gamplay genre) that are great fun and control well.
Whenever I tried to play Dungeon Defenders I just couldn't shake the feeling that could be playing Trenched or Orcs Must Die instead.

Note to developers:

Releasing a demo helps sell people on the fence. After I played the demo I got this....

@stiqlol

Agree, we p.c. users are seeing as nothing but pirate rats, well... guess what?? some companies ARE making money on the p.c., just a fast example of what a good game with no crazy DRM and more important FUN FACTOR can do when it´s released on the "dying" p.c. market, now if only the "major" companies could understand this........

After I kept playing the demo every night for a week, I decided to buy it. While I have no friends to play it with, I still find enjoyment in solitude.

It was a solid first day purchase from me on the 360 .
Sucks we missed out on the Portal gun etc .

@Crazy Savant
Then y u no buy on steam?
The requirements are laughably low and Im pretty sure it has controller support too

@Crazy Savant

Don't feel too bad. The portal gun barely does anything. You can't really direct the portal, and even if you manage to get it over a ledge, there's a half chance those enemies will fall onto the platform. It also takes ammo/energy to keep the portal up, which regenerates when not in use. Basically, you fire the gun, it creates a portal, but you can't attach it to a structure, it stops in the air at a certain point and opens.

I find it really easy to pay $5-$10 dollars on Steam rather then shelling out the equivalent in Microsoft points.

Played the demo, loved it.

Sadly didnt bother buying it purely cause I heard solo is nearly impossible late game.

I dont know anyone with the game so.. :(

@PolishMountainMan

Me too, but everyone has their opinions.

I love this game you Meany lol

I like this game but the only thing i hate is the Squire's towers out performs the apprentice's towers in every aspect, my towers are used for a round or 2 then they are sold so the squire can stack his towers.

best $15 I've spent all year.

I'd have bought this on the PS3, but the movement stick doesn't work. A lot of people have complained, but no patch yet.