Phantom Blade Zero's official soundtrack is out today, and the composer sat down with us to discuss how the action game's kung fu punk style inspired "bold musical decisions to match the visuals":

Phantom Blade Zero is officially the next big thing. Developer S-Game has announced that its wuxia-themed action game has sold 4 million copies in just a few days.

Phantom Blade Zero has reached a new all-time peak of 833,921 concurrent players on Steam. SteamDB shows the 24-hour and all-time peaks both sitting at that number as of this afternoon. Current concurrent is still above 530,000. The wuxia action RPG from S-GAME launched on October 29. The figure covers Steam only; the game is also on PS5. Weekend numbers remain high.

Phantom Blade Zero has ended Crimson Desert’s realistic chances at major GOTY awards. Both are outsider AAA titles from China and South Korea chasing the same jury votes. PBZ launched late October with Metacritic scores around 88, with critics locking in on the combat. Crimson Desert came out in March, sold hard, then sat at 77 while relying on updates to stay relevant. One is a focused action game that reviewed cleanly. The other is a sprawling open-world title that never quite convinced critics. That leaves PBZ as the clearer pick for the limited outsider slot heading into awards season.