{"id":49361,"date":"2026-11-06T08:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/whats-driving-phantom-blade-zeros-massive-success\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:34:54","slug":"whats-driving-phantom-blade-zeros-massive-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/whats-driving-phantom-blade-zeros-massive-success\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Driving Phantom Blade Zero\u2019s Massive Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on this bloodbath of a release window, especially as we enter November, it\u2019s interesting to see which titles emerged victorious and which struggled. Almost everyone expected that <em>Onimusha: Way of the Sword, The Blood of Dawnwalker,<\/em> and <em>Control Resonant<\/em> would top one million sales each. Few expected <em>Star Wars: Zero Company<\/em> and perhaps even <em>Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve<\/em> to end up as big as they did. And among the biggest names, even fewer expected titles like <em>Gears of War: E-Day<\/em> to reportedly come up short. That you could substitute other names of varying degrees of size and scope is a testament to how packed this season has been.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, one performed even better than our wildest expectations, and if the headline didn\u2019t give it away, it\u2019s S-Game\u2019s <em>Phantom Blade Zero<\/em>. After launching to very strong critical praise, currently at an 88 Metascore based on 45 reviews, it peaked at nearly 834,000 concurrent players on Steam and became the 14th most-played title on the platform in its history. A quick peek at its rating reveals a 91 percent \u201cVery Positive\u201d score based on 56,383 user reviews at this time.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/whats-driving-phantom-blade-zeros-massive-success\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on this bloodbath of a release window, especially as we enter November, it\u2019s interesting to see which titles emerged victorious and which struggled. Almost everyone expected that Onimusha: Way of the Sword, The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Control Resonant would top one million sales each. Few expected Star Wars: Zero Company and perhaps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[171,751,36,164,194,209,3498],"class_list":["post-49361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-article","tag-editorials","tag-mixtv","tag-pc","tag-phantom-blade-zero","tag-ps5","tag-s-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}