Last year, Moon Studios boss Thomas Mahler was threatening that his company might have to shut down if players didn’t stop review-bombing his new action-RPG No Rest for the Wicked on Steam. Now his team is celebrating a major turnaround after a recent update brought multiplayer co-op to the top-down Soulslike. With a fresh spotlight on the Early Access project, Mahler took the opportunity to confirm that while the game is currently steeply discounted, it’ll cost as much as Baldur’s Gate 3 once it’s fully released.
“I’m not trying to do any FOMO marketing here, but yes: when we hit 1.0, No Rest for the Wicked will move to $60, because it’s a premium title,” he wrote on X on Thursday. “We’ve announced this a long time ago and repeated it several times.” He compared it to the hit Dungeons & Dragons-based CRPG which remained full-price throughout Early Access. Unlike that, No Rest for the Wicked is typically $40 in its own Early Access period. At the moment, it’s even cheaper than that thanks to an ongoing Steam Sale. It’ll be 40 percent off until February 5.
“The reason the game launched at $40 was simple: Early Access players should get a discount,” Mahler wrote. “BG3 launched into Early Access at full price, and personally I never loved that approach. If you support a game early, you should get some extra love. I’m only saying this now so nobody’s surprised or upset later. If you’ve been on the fence about Wicked, the current sale is genuinely a good time to jump in.”
A free-to-play Steam weekend coup
And a bunch of players clearly have been. No Rest for the Wicked‘s Together update went live just last week on January 22. In addition to the usual bevy of quality-of-life improvements, bug fixes, and re-balancing, it brought full, shared-world co-op to the game that transformed the otherwise grim and solemn affair into something much more social. In addition to fighting through a brutal and bloody fantasy setting together, players can also fish, forage, and partake in other, more chill distractions.
New players have been flocking to the game ever since with an major influx of positive Steam reviews over the weekend when the game was briefly free-to-play. It peaked at over 60,000 concurrents and was temporarily the best-selling game on Steam. Mahler said the game’s been selling tens of thousands of new copies every day since.
It’s a far cry from last summer’s ominous warnings that the Ori and the Blind Forest maker might not be “around in a couple of months to do anything anymore” if existing players kept complaining about the direction of the game. The game is currently slated to arrive on PlayStation 5 when it hits 1.0, but so far there’s no set timeline for when that will happen.