Code Vein Has Shipped Over Two Million Units Since Launch

Code Vein, the Soulslike action RPG developed by Bandai Namco and released exactly two years ago, has now surpassed two million units shipped in total. The news came in earlier today via the game’s official Japanese Twitter account.

【祝 #CODEVEIN 2周年＆200万本突破！】皆様のおかげで発売2周年を迎えました。また、世界累計出荷・DL販売本数も200万本突破しました！今後とも応援よろしくお願いします。#コードヴェイン pic.twitter.com/1j7pdrube6

— CODE VEIN (@CODE_VEIN) September 27, 2021

Of course, that doesn’t tell us exactly how many of these Code Vein copies have been effectively sold, but it should be relatively close to two million units. Whether that’s enough to warrant a sequel is unclear yet.

In his review of the game, Rosh Kelly defined Code Vein ’the edgier cousin of Dragon’s Dogma'.

There’s plenty of room to explore the ruins you’ll wander, and you can get anything from a new weapon to old cologne. But it doesn’t take you long to start noticing the suspiciously still enemy bodies that scatter a lot of floors that definitely won’t get up and attack you once you walk past them. It’s a trick that feels overused after only a handful of hours and Code Vein doesn’t really slow down their use.

While Code Vein has a lovely art style, the story is the boring kind of bonkers. The combat is fun and the exploration satisfying, but the locations feel repetitive, the sidekicks annoying and in the end, it feels like Dragons Dogma’s edgier cousin.