Remnant 2 tops best-selling Steam games ahead of launch

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Remnant 2 sales are looking strong so far – the upcoming shooter promises to be one of the best co-op games of 2023, and it’s already topping Valve’s official chart of the best-selling games on Steam ahead of the Remnant 2 release date. The first game became somewhat of a cult hit, drawing a steady stream of players through word-of-mouth and a stint on Microsoft’s Game Pass service, and it seems Remnant 2 is set to build on that at launch.

I absolutely adored Remnant From The Ashes. Like many people, I was prepared to write it off as a fairly standard co-op third-person shooter early on, but after hearing some talk about its later content I made the commitment to give it more of a chance, and found that Gunfire Games had made something truly unique and special. Luckily, our Remnant 2 review reveals a sequel that follows boldly in those footsteps.

Packed with secrets galore and with a rather unique structure drawing from the best roguelike games to create something endlessly replayable but with a permanence to your character progression, I found myself losing hundreds of hours to the first Remnant in search of its deepest mysteries. Gunfire Games promises similar for the new game, with Remnant 2 secrets still eluding play testers with ‘400+ hours’ played.

That intrigue is backed up by Remnant’s incredibly solid gameplay, which blends the precise enemy attack patterns and invincibility-boosted dodge rolls of Dark Souls with some of the snappiest, most satisfying shooting around. With a huge arsenal of weapons at your disposal, and dozens of character traits to unlock and upgrade, Remnant carries a phenomenal amount of depth – another thing its sequel looks to carry forward.

For Gunfire Games, it looks like its approach is