Xbox Game Pass Helps Atomic Heart Reach 5 Million Players In Under A Month

great game; love it

It was genuine fun game. It had it's ups and downs but for a new game from new studio it is brilliant.

I played it for around an hour and couldn't stand it. Just felt like a low budget game from the Xbox 360 era.

I gave up about 5 hours in - erratic frame rate and every other time I went to play there was yet another huge update.

Did the patches finally fix the performance? (Series X) If they did then I could be tempted to try again.

@Moonglow Microsoft often adopts games like Atomic Heart as a semi-exclusive, they are multi-platform but they are associated with Xbox and Day 1 on GP makes them feel like an exclusive when it is 80 euros elsewhere.
It is a shame that AH still launched with a Series X version more buggy than the PS5 version. Whatever the reason, Microsoft and devs need to make sure that doesn't repeat itself.

I'd love to see a split on how many of those 5m bought the game and how many played it on game pass. Also a breakdown of how many of those players downloaded it and played it briefly and how many it retained for longer. Just saying how many players had played it isn't really a sufficient stat to measure how successfully a game is under a subscription model.

I tried to like it but ended up dropping it. It made me physically ill the first time I played it, then they updated it with FOV settings and I tried it again. I don’t know, I really like the setting but I just didn’t find it that enjoyable.

Going into rooms and holding RB to hoover a load of junk up isn’t my idea of a fun time, combat didn’t feel meaty. It’s a shame but I’m glad it’s done well.

And how many of those 5 million download it played for an hour or two then deleted it.
Such a crap metric this is.

Undoubtedly GamePass made this game far more successful than it would have been without it. I know it's the only reason why I downloaded it, and I enjoyed it so much I played it until the end. Heck I think it's one of the only games I beat this year.

@Moonglow I think GamePass can be incredible for indie developers. I know there's a lot of indie games I bought for my Switch and Steam Deck simply because I played them on GamePass first and fell in love with them.

I was so disappointed with this. The world building was incredible and I expected a cool mix of Control and Wolfenstein but it was just a very boring execution with a dreadful protagonist.

I had a game breaking bug where the shoulder buttons stopped working. Reinstalled, played again and got same bug in same place. Uninstalled and won't bother again

The Tweet does not explicitly mention GamePass, and the quote "although its inclusion in Xbox Game Pass on day one likely made a huge contribution" sounds like guesswork.