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Quarantine Zone: The Last Check confidently took first place with 665.7 thousand copies sold.
StarRupture ranked second with 533.7 thousand copies, followed by LORT in third place with 253.9 thousand.
Cairn sold 107.7 thousand copies in January, although the developers announced in February that total sales had already exceeded 300 thousand.
January is traditionally not a month packed with major hits, but it did deliver several strong, smaller releases.
StarRupture generated $12.3 million and overtook Quarantine Zone: The Last Check, which earned $10.4 million, thanks to a higher price point.
Code Vein II ranked third, priced at $70 for the base edition.
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The ARC Raiders’ success story continues. In January alone, the game sold another 2.1 million copies, bringing total sales to 15 million.
Strong sales were also recorded for R.E.P.O., which added 867.4 thousand copies to reach 18.4 million total, Peak with 692.1 thousand new copies and 15.5 million total, and RV There Yet? with 650 thousand additional copies for a total of 5.5 million.
No Rest for the Wicked is worth highlighting separately. The game sold 663.3 thousand copies in January, bringing total sales to 1.5 million, following the release of its cooperative mode.
Counter-Strike 2 led revenue rankings by a wide margin with $163.9 million in January. ARC Raiders followed with $76.2 million, and PUBG: Battleground took third place with $56.3 million.
Where Winds Meet entered the Steam top 10 with $23.2 million in revenue.
New releases on PlayStation 5, such as Cairn and Code Vein II, sold fewer than 50 thousand copies.
The largest new release on Xbox Series S|X was Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, which also sold fewer than 50,000 copies.
On Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, however, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade sold over 100,000 copies in January.