Two titles of the saga, Ori and the Blind Forest, as of 2015 and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, as of 2020, are two real gems that, since the first days on the market, have started to gain a great reputation among players who have been seduced by their design. I won’t say, because that would be too bold, that they are the best metroidvania on the market (well, don’t forget that we can find other gems like Hollow Knight in this subgenre), but without a doubt they should be in the top five of the genre.

So if we check their ratings on Steam, we see that both titles They have a measure that is “extremely positive”., while looking at Metacritic we can see that his titles range between remarkably high and near excellent. And even if they did not exist, if I had to follow my own criteria after playing them, it is clear to me that we are talking about those types of games where it is evident that all their aspects, both technical and artistic, have been brought up with great care..

this of course wishes to be a commercial success, firstly because it is a fair reward for a job well done and also because it allows us to dream that at some point the studio will decide that it is time to renew the saga and in this way surprise and rejoice with the announcement of a new Ori . In this case, however, the happiness is partial, for the former is not remotely a confirmation of the latter.

If Blind Forest had failed then, we would have been broke as a studio.

But thank goodness we haven’t – we’ve sold about 10 million copies of Ori so far, probably making it the most successful Metroidvania series ever made.

And that allowed me to buy this 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/lXh26hBNqb

— thomasmahler (@thomasmahler) March 10, 2024

So the good part is that the recognition actually happened because, as it was published On Twitter CEO of Moon Studios GmbH, Sales of the Ori saga hover around 10 million units. A success that, of course, had a hand in Microsoft as it was (and actually still is, because you can still buy them) the publisher and distributor of both titles, making a decisive contribution to its visibility. and popularization.

Now, and as I said earlier, the success on this occasion does not indicate future plans for the saga, and Moon Studios have already stated some time ago that little or no interest in working with Microsoft again, although they were quite discreet and did not reveal the reasons for this refusal. And the problem is that the Ori license is not from the studio, but from Microsoft, so those in Redmond could order a new title from another studio (although we can be sure that it would not be the same), but Moon Studios they can’t go back to it in the future (they’re currently finishing up their next game, No Rest For the Wicked, which is scheduled for April 18th in Early Access).