{"id":30570,"date":"2026-01-28T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30570"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:48:58","slug":"absolum-sells-500000-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/collection\/absolum-sells-500000-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolum Sells 500,000 Copies As Major Content Update Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/absolum-physical-switch-ps5\/\">reported<\/a> on <strong>Absolum<\/strong>, the highly acclaimed beat &#8217;em-up from developer <strong>Dotemu<\/strong>, back in August 2025. Since then, news has come through that over half a million copies of the game have been sold across <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1904480\/Absolum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PC<\/a>, <strong>Nintendo Switch,<\/strong> and <strong>PlayStation<\/strong>. As well as the good news about\u00a0<strong>Absolum<\/strong>&#8216;s success, the developer also announced that its eagerly awaited update to the game will be released on February 12th, 2026. The update is called <strong>Threads of Fate<\/strong> and will offer a new game mode, challenges, items, mounts for characters, and the usual improvements around bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement, <strong>Dotemu<\/strong> said. &#8220;The acclaimed reimagining of the beat &#8217;em up genre, which combines classic fighting with dense storytelling and high replay value, has today surpassed the mark ofmore than 500,000 units sold! <strong>Absolum<\/strong> is <strong>Dotemu<\/strong>&#8216;s first original franchise and an exciting example of how an independent developer can meaningfully expand upon classic genres and breathe new life into them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Key features of the <strong>Threads of Fate<\/strong> update:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A completely new game mode, Mystic Trials, which utilizes dozens of modifiers to offer a demanding challenge with surprises and scenarios that provide a bold contrast to the original adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deadly new dangers and rewards await in the optional corrupted regions to be discovered while exploring the incredible world of Absolum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exciting new rewards, mounts, and more, alongside a host of improvements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"\u300eAbsolum\uff08\u30a2\u30d6\u30bd\u30e9\u30e0\uff09\u300f\u30c6\u30a3\u30b6\u30fc\u30c8\u30ec\u30fc\u30e9\u30fc\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5QxaSNkYK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We last reported on Absolum, the highly acclaimed beat &#8217;em-up from developer Dotemu, back in August 2025. Since then, news has come through that over half a million copies of the game have been sold across PC, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation. As well as the good news about\u00a0Absolum&#8216;s success, the developer also announced that its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[175,176,177],"class_list":["post-30570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collection","tag-absolum","tag-dotemu","tag-guard-crush-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}