THQ Nordic and Barcelona studio Alkimia Interactive say Gothic 1 Remake has topped 500,000 copies sold worldwide in its first week after launch – a solid start for a Gothic 1 Remake that had to convince both old fans and a new audience. The numbers help explain the mood around the game: strong Steam interest, a very healthy user score, and a franchise with enough nostalgia to still move serious volume.
On Steam, the game has more than 15,000 ”very positive” reviews and reached a peak of 77,731 concurrent players, a sign that the Gothic name still carries weight far beyond the usual remake crowd. For an old-school fantasy series, that kind of launch is not just respectable – it is the sort of result publishers usually pin to a whiteboard and quietly celebrate for months.
What THQ Nordic says the remake sold in week one
The publisher’s message was straightforward: the game crossed the 500,000 mark in its first week of official release. That puts Gothic 1 Remake in a much better place than many cautious remake projects, which often rely on nostalgia alone and then discover that nostalgia is not a business model.
Alkimia Interactive framed the result as the beginning rather than the finish line. The studio said it will keep supporting and improving the game in the coming weeks and months, which is the right move after a launch that clearly brought in a big wave of players who will now decide whether they stay.
Patch 1.0.1 is already changing the experience
The first post-launch patch arrived on 12 June for the PC version and adds a difficulty indicator to lockpicking, after players found the mechanic unintuitive. It also includes balance tweaks, bug fixes, and crash fixes – the standard cleanup list, but one that matters more than most when a remake is trying to prove it can be both faithful and playable.
- Launch date: 5 June
- Sales in the first week: more than 500,000 copies
- Steam reviews: more than 15,000 ”very positive”
- Steam peak concurrent players: 77,731
A remake built to court both nostalgia and newcomers
Gothic 1 Remake launched on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X and S, with a price of 2699 rubles on Steam and GOG for the PC release. Built from scratch on Unreal Engine 5, it promises a hand-crafted world, new stories, expanded old ones, and a full Russian translation – a package clearly aimed at making the original easier to approach without sanding off its identity.
The bigger question is whether that launch week becomes a durable run or just a nostalgia spike. Strong early sales and a high Steam rating are a good start, but the real test for any remake is whether players keep recommending it after the first rush fades – and whether Alkimia can keep the fixes coming fast enough to support that goodwill.