The Beloved Octopath Traveler series surpasses 6m lifetime sales, shortly after Octopath Traveler 0's launch

Square Enix has announced the Octopath Traveller series has surpassed 6m lifetime sales, shortly after the release of Octopath Traveller 0.
Revealed on the official Octopath Traveller X account, this milestone coincides with steep discounts across all entries in the series. Octopath Traveller and Octopath Traveller 2 are available right now at a 60 percent reduction in price.
The Octopath series has proven a successful gambit from Square Enix. The original release back in 2018 proved a smash hit critically, quickly soaring past 1m sales. Roughly a year later, it came to Steam, adding additional fire to the game's momentum.
In 2022, Octopath Traveller: Champions of the Continent released in Europe and North America, adding controversial gacha mechanics to the series. Then, in 2023, Octopath Traveller 2 was released. This too proved popular among RPG lovers, iterating on the original and garnering a new wave of positive critical reception. It also had a stint on Xbox Game Pass, offering a nice boost.
Fast forward to this year and we've got Octopath Traveller 0, a recreation of the aforementioned Champions of the Continent without all the oozing microtransactions. It's not perfect by any means, but remains a pleasing RPG experience despite its faults. Eurogamer's Dom Peppiatt described the game as: "an interesting experiment in trying to make a traditional game out of gacha elements, it's just not a very successful one."