After hearing how well Baldur's Gate 3 sold, I was curious to know what the overall sales are for all the games. I quickly came to realize that there is no overall tally of the sales, so I did the next best thing and researched the reported sales I could find for individual games and added them together:
3.) Eye of the Beholder series (1991-1993) - 350,000
4.) Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft (1996) - 150,000
5.) Baldur's Gate (1998) - 2.8 million
6.) Planescape: Torment (1999) - 400,000
7.) Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) - 2 million
8.) Icewind Dale I and II (2000-2002) - 580,000
9.) Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (2001) - 1 million
10.) Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001) - 150,000
11.) Neverwinter Nights (2002) - 2.2 million
12.) The Temple of Elemental Evil (2003) - 128,000
13.) Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) - 1 million
14.) Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - 15 million
So altogether, that would add up to 28,456,000 million copies. Surprisingly, I found many reports of sales for earlier games, but had a hard time finding reports of sales for many games after 2003, which incidentally may give a little bit of an idea as to how well those unreported games sold. If many later games selling less is truly the case, then I imagine the overall figure of all the games would be somewhere around the 35-40 million mark. If any of you happen to know of more data, I'd appreciate to see it.
It’s a bit misleading to put gold box as a single entry. There were a lot of games in that series. You can pick up the gold box classics as a package on steam and it’s like 21 games altogether. I get it that finding data for each one would be really hard, so I don’t mean that to be as critical as it sounds when it’s written down.
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After hearing how well Baldur's Gate 3 sold, I was curious to know what the overall sales are for all the games. I quickly came to realize that there is no overall tally of the sales, so I did the next best thing and researched the reported sales I could find for individual games and added them together:
1.) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain (1982) - 698,000
2.) Gold Box series (1988-1993) - 2 million
3.) Eye of the Beholder series (1991-1993) - 350,000
4.) Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft (1996) - 150,000
5.) Baldur's Gate (1998) - 2.8 million
6.) Planescape: Torment (1999) - 400,000
7.) Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) - 2 million
8.) Icewind Dale I and II (2000-2002) - 580,000
9.) Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (2001) - 1 million
10.) Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001) - 150,000
11.) Neverwinter Nights (2002) - 2.2 million
12.) The Temple of Elemental Evil (2003) - 128,000
13.) Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) - 1 million
14.) Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - 15 million
So altogether, that would add up to 28,456,000 million copies. Surprisingly, I found many reports of sales for earlier games, but had a hard time finding reports of sales for many games after 2003, which incidentally may give a little bit of an idea as to how well those unreported games sold. If many later games selling less is truly the case, then I imagine the overall figure of all the games would be somewhere around the 35-40 million mark. If any of you happen to know of more data, I'd appreciate to see it.
Sources:
1.) Intellivision Lives! (1998)
2.) https://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=117
3.) https://web.archive.org/web/19961119114425/http://www.ssionline.com/cgi-bin/omixlink?709815180+insider/corporate/corporate.html
4.) https://web.archive.org/web/20180618001634/https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=696724
5.) https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal/89325400/
6.) https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10604
7.) https://web.archive.org/web/20051106013711/http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/about/
8.) https://web.archive.org/web/20121017165955/http://www.edge-online.com/features/top-100-pc-games-21st-century/
9.) https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/03/24/dark-alliance-ii-announced
10.) https://web.archive.org/web/20140811010123/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/91838/Acquisitions_Propel_Ubi_Soft_Sales_Up_72.php
11.) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-12-fi-games12-story.html
12.) https://web.archive.org/web/20050405233402/http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=9052
13.) https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal/89325400/
14.) https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/dublin-firm-behind-baldurs-gate-game-posts-249m-profit-after-runaway-success/a2033961431.html
If memory serves, Eye of the Beholder II was the first D&D video game I played.
It’s a bit misleading to put gold box as a single entry. There were a lot of games in that series. You can pick up the gold box classics as a package on steam and it’s like 21 games altogether.
I get it that finding data for each one would be really hard, so I don’t mean that to be as critical as it sounds when it’s written down.