Helldivers 2 has more players than the population of Sweden, making it PlayStation's fastest-selling game of all time

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have, of course, had more than enough players in their myriad series to occupy Stockholm for some time, but now a plucky upstart has joined their ranks.

Arrowhead just announced that Helldivers 2 has sold over 12 million copies since its February release, meaning"There are more Helldivers than there are Swedes," in the words of CEO Johan Pilestedt. Sweden has around 10.5 million people in it, if you're wondering, and Arrowhead is a Swedish studio, just in case you're baffled by the comparison., in which it called Helldivers 2 its"biggest PC hit title to date.

Pilestedt doesn't give us much of a breakdown of the game's 12 million sales, save that about 150,000 of them are Swedes themselves. Barely one percent of the overall player total, in other words, and surely insufficient to stop the game's advance into Småland. That's the plan, right? I'm pretty sure that's the plan.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

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