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Polish Skyrim: Tainted Grail Sales and Twitch Impact

Polskiego Skyrima, The Polish Skyrim has arrived to shake up Video Games

Poland has shown itself to be a powerhouse in the making of video games with the release of the RPG, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon initial sales

The Arthurian Dark Fantasy game has been released to the world, and it has some impressive sales. The stats that I have put on the top of this blog post show the estimations of how many sales the game currently has right now.

According to the most estimates, it should be at about 150,000 copies sold already which is great for a game of this size.

The game has barely been out and is currently sitting at a healthy review ratio of very positive on Steam. The game is currently sitting at 84% on Steam, which is very positive.

The recent reviews, which represent the reviews relating to Version 1.0, have been also consistent with the early access reviews.

What is important is that the game is getting attention by streamers on Twitch and YouTubers and that will help this game in the sales.

The player count right now is about 12,000 players. I would expect that Tainted Grail is going to be getting more players in the future and it is not going stagnate.

Tainted Grail and Twitch performance

In the mid afternoon on release, the Twitch numbers are good for a independent title such as this.

Many of the players are a great of mix of Americans, British and Eastern Europeans. There is quite a few of people who are Polish and enjoying that their country had made another great video game in the style of the Witcher.

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon and return of female beauty in Video Games

It is clear that the beauty of female characters in video games is having something of a renaissance now. There has been a movement away from having nice looking women in video games. Artists in the video game industry are not shying away from showing the female form. The Polish Gaming scene has always been open with depicting women, as can been seen in the famous Witcher games.

In the screenshot above, you can clearly see that political correctness is not governing the design of characters.

Compare this to how Oblivion Remastered ended up changing the look of the female characters and their clothing styles.

One can clearly see the inspiration in the interface of Tainted Grail. However, it is clear that the game is allowing for more skin to be showing in the game.

Some YouTubers have made comparison videos of the graphics between the original version and the new version. I saw that some of the female outfits and armor had been changed as to show less skin or to be less suggestive.

Such changes have been trending awhile in Bethesda.

Fallout 3 had many references to sexuality and yet its sequel basically hid it underneath the companions.

Oblivion and Skyrim were basically sexless games while Morrowind had even less sexuality in comparison to the earlier Elder Scrolls Games. Daggerfall and Arena were products of 1990s culture looking back at the 1980s Fantasy craze and putting them into games.

Tainted Grail is not going to have huge amounts of sexuality in it. One of the prominent screenshots for the game on Steam shows a woman with her belly button exposed. She is holding a huge sword over her shoulder. This is a combination of beauty and brawn all in one image.

How Successful will Tainted Grail and the Fall of Avalon be on Steam?

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon has the prospect of being one of the year’s most successful video games.

It is a retelling of Arthurian legend in dark fantasy style which is similar to Dark Souls. Some have stated that the game is basically Skyrim meets Dark Souls, which is pretty accurate.

Skyrim and Dark Souls share similarities in the aesthetics and I think that is to their benefit in some sense. Oblivion is a game that really appeals to the High Fantasy fiction which was popular around the time of the Lord of the Rings was released in the early 2000s. Tainted Grail is a fusion of the harsh gameplay of Dark Souls with the RPG gameplay of Skyrim. Such a wedding of two great genre defining games is a great boon to Awaken Realm’s efforts to strike gold in a tough consumer market with so many choices and huge game backlogs.

It is important that the game succeeds. The question is, will it be successful on Steam.

I believe that it will make money but there is a nuance here. How much money will it make and how many users will it have on the site?

I think that Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon will probably have maybe above 50,000 users. Considering that the game is cheap and only 44.99, I think for many cash-strapped gamers, this will be a great deal for anyone looking for similar game to Skyrim or Dark Souls.

Considering how the game has been in early access and Awakens Realms has been devoted to the improvement of the game, I am confident we will have Kingdom Come Deliverance success for this Polish company.

I wish the game the best of luck in bringing Arthurian legends to people’s consoles and PCs.