Earlier this month, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 launched with great success.
Tim Willits, CEO of Saber Interactive, hinted at possible future expansions or even a sequel, though nothing is set in stone yet.
Willits mentioned that while he couldn’t share exact sales numbers, the game’s popularity brings both excitement and pressure. “When you have a big hit and you have that internet kind of popularity, there’s more passion and there’s more responsibility for the quality that you do. And you look at yourself through a different lens. And sometimes that success lens can be a little dangerous because then you get so paranoid about making sure everything is great that you overstress about things,” he told IGN. “But it’s that success lens that really drives amazing games into the future. So I do believe that through the success lens that we have, we will just make far better products in the future.”
Space Marine 2 had over 2 million players at launch, making it the most-played Warhammer game on Steam ever. Willits also shared that it’s the fastest-selling game he’s been involved with, which is impressive considering his history with Doom, Wolfenstein, and Quake at id Software.
Interestingly, the budget for Space Marine 2 was less than half of what was spent on Doom Eternal, though exact figures weren’t shared.
Given Space Marine 2’s success, the team now has the freedom to “dream bigger.” This could mean new story content or even Space Marine 3.
“Our game director Dmitry Grigorenko, he has proposed some story ideas that could either be DLC or a sequel,” Willits said. “We’re literally just catching our breath. This is two weeks out. We just need to get the dust to settle. But I can confidently say that we will not disappoint our Warhammer fans in the future. It’s too big of a success! I know that’s an obvious thing to say, but hopefully we’ll be working on Space Marine content for a long time.”
In GameSpot’s Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 review, we called Saber’s sequel “a more than worthy successor to the 2011 original,” with “brutally gory action” that “brings the tabletop game to life in all its grimdark splendor.”
