The two games in theOriseries,Ori And the Blind ForestandOri and the Will of the Wispshave now collectively sold 15 million copies. The first title in the series was released in 2015 but developer Moon Studios had been working on it for four years before it officially launched.Oripredates the success of other major recent Metroidvania names likeHollow Knight, andDead Cells,ushering in a new age for the genre.
The games' designer and director,Thomas Mahler, shared the momentous occasion on his X account. In the celebratory post, Mahlercalls the milestone “not too shabby"for a game in a genre the developers were warned was “dead” when they began work on the first title.
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Selling 15 million copies is no easy feat, especially for a small studio with fewer than 100 employees. Even more impressively, Mahler confirms in the comments to the X post thatthese numbers do not include anyone who played the game through the Xbox Game Pass.This means that many more players may have experienced the two games when they launched on theXbox subscription service, the first in 2018 and the second as a day one release in 2020.
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Fans are universally excited for the team, withcongratulatory messages flooding the commentssection on the announcement post. Theimpressive sales milestoneis well deserved, according to fans. X userBoltTheWordsays the two titles are among the “top 10 favorite games I’ve played in the last decade easy,” reflecting many other fans' sentiments.
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I count myself among the fans who absolutely love theOriseries, andOri and the Blind Forestwas one of the first games that introduced me to the Metroidvania genre.The game set the stage — and the bar — for any titles that follows.
TheOrigames feature breathtaking hand-drawn visuals, right down to the incredible lighting, and a story that managed to fill your heart with hope and shatter it in the same breath. Any small studio managing to get 15 million copies sold is a great success story, butMoon Studios and theOriseries are especially deserving of the accomplishment.
Moon Studios departed from the world ofOrifor its third title,No Rest for the Wicked,which was a much darker aRPG that released on June 29, 2025. The success ofOri and the Blind Forestand its sequel spells good things for the studio’s future projects, no matter what genre they choose to tackle next.
