Strange World: Soulstorm is a free-to-play game for PS+ in April 2021, and PS players should still have an impression. According to foreign media playstationlifestyle news, Oddworld Inhabitants, the developer of Strange World: Soul Storm, recently explained in the live broadcast how a month's PS+ free game made "Strange World: Soul Storm" suffer a devastating blow.
Due to the rising cost of the game at the time of development, the developer sought additional financial help, and Sony offered the studio a deal: the game would be free of charge as a one-month PS+ in exchange for an undisclosed investment amount. Lorne Lanning, head of Oddworld Inhabitants, said that it was January 2021 at the time, and not many players had PS5 consoles, and they estimated that they would sell up to 100,000 copies at launch, conservatively estimating 50,000 copies, so they made a lot more money from the deal than they did from selling the game.
However, shortly after the transaction was signed, due to the impact of the epidemic, the game was postponed to April 2021, which also allowed more players to buy PS5, which made Strange World: Soulstorm the most downloaded game on PS5, close to 4 million copies, almost all of which were download-free through PS, which was a devastating blow for developers. Although the developers didn't say how the game sold on Xbox, it was sure to have some impact.