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Okay, so here we go with Mafia: The Old Country. Yeah, it’s out on PC and all the fancy consoles right now. I guess it’s doing okay, but honestly, it’s not exactly knocking anyone’s socks off, at least compared to the older Mafia games. Can you believe it? Maybe it’s just early days, or who knows, maybe it’s pacing itself.
So this game hit the scene back in August 2024 and finally dropped on August 8, 2025. PS5, Xbox Series Whatever, and PCs are all in the mix. And hey, Hangar 13’s the brains behind this thing. People are saying it’s pulling a 77 on OpenCritic, which sounds decent enough, right? But—there’s always a but—it’s playing it a bit too safe, not like the edgy stuff we got used to. Like, what gives?
Now, here’s the kicker. The Old Country racked up about 35,247 Steam players all at once last Saturday. Sounds like a lot, but nah, it’s lagging behind Mafia 3, which pulled in around 48,000 back in 2016. On Steam’s Top Sellers? It’s sitting in third place, but maybe that’s just because it’s a quiet time of the year. Or maybe it’s all about how the game’s actually selling… who even knows?!
Let’s not get too deep into it, but the numbers are a trip, I tell ya. Mafia peaked at just over 9,000 back in ’02. Mafia 2? About 29,474 in 2011, and Mafia 3 in 2016 got that 47,822 mark—phew! Anyway, The Old Country is just shy of that, like I said. It’s a wild table of figures, if you’re into that kind of thing.
As for sales… wild guesses here. We’re talking maybe 186,000 copies on Steam in the first 36 hours. Not too shabby, right? According to some gaming nerds, that could mean up to 700,000 in the first week on Steam. But, let’s be real, if they’re only selling a quarter of that in those crucial first days, that’s a tall order.
Apparently, single-player game sales drop pretty fast these days, I mean—who buys games later, right? The PC crowd might make up about 33% of the sales, with just Steam in the picture. PS Store rocked 4,000 reviews for this one; that’s tiny compared to Mafia 3. If you go by some strange math of a 0.01 review-to-sales ratio, that’s about 400k PS sales. Xbox? Barely 300 reviews.
In the grand scheme, maybe we’re not even crossing that 1 million sales line. Mafia’s a franchise that’s been shouting about 35 million sales and now, well, here we are. They need to sell around 1.76 million copies to rake in $60 million in revenue. Is that enough to break even? Anyone’s guess. Development costs are a mystery, and marketing? I mean, who even mentions marketing. It’s a maze.
So yeah, maybe Mafia: The Old Country isn’t setting the world on fire, but maybe it’s just biding its time. Or not. That’s how it looks from here, anyway.
Sources? Yeah, let’s toss in Gamalytic and PlayTracker for good measure. Who knew they’d be this useful?
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How’s that? Totally off the cuff.
