Kingdom Hearts Becomes Second Top-Selling Steam Game in the U.S. After Extended D23 Trailer Sparks Fan Excitement

Kingdom Hearts is having a large infinitesimal connected Steam, becoming the platform’s 2nd best-selling crippled successful the United States pursuing the Kingdom Hearts IV gameplay trailer that was shown astatine D23 implicit the weekend.

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 Remix, a hefty compilation of games successful the series, is soaring connected Steam’s Top Sellers list, reaching 2nd spot arsenic the most-purchased rubric wrong the U.S. connected August 17, 2026. Data from SteamsCharts shows it accrued a highest subordinate number of 10,139 players implicit the past 24 hours, with conscionable implicit 8,000 players actively playing the crippled arsenic of 2 hours anterior to penning this article.

It helps that Steam is presently having a monolithic merchantability for the franchise, with collections of the games listed astatine 70% disconnected until Thursday, August 20.

While it’s since dropped down to 3rd spot connected the charts, eclipsed by the recently-released and well-received Mortal Shell II, this is inactive a monolithic accomplishment for the series, which past recovered itself connected Steam’s Top Sellers charts backmost erstwhile Square Enix archetypal brought the games to the level successful summertime 2024. At that time, it reached its historical all-time concurrent Steam subordinate peak, drafting successful 11,152 players simultaneously.

It’s not a monolithic astonishment that Kingdom Hearts is seeing a surge successful popularity close now; extended gameplay footage for Kingdom Hearts IV was shown astatine D23 implicit the weekend, snagging a spot successful Disney’s Friday nighttime showcase astatine the Honda Center and erstwhile again astatine the Deep Dive Into Kingdom Hearts sheet connected Saturday.

The Land of the Dead from Coco is an explorable satellite successful KHIV, which volition spot Sora squad up with Miguel and Hector to combat disconnected the heartless. We besides got a amended look astatine Quadratum, the realistic metropolis seen successful erstwhile trailers, wherever we spot Sora utilizing a smartphone for the archetypal time.

Perhaps the astir breathtaking happening that was shown disconnected successful the trailer was a peculiar gameplay conception wherever players instrumentality power of King Mickey successful a Paper Mario, Link Between Worlds-esque mission. They volition besides beryllium capable to play arsenic Goofy and Donald, who person seemingly mislaid way of Sora and are desperately searching for him.

That’s not all; successful a uncommon nationalist appearance, Tetsuya Nomura confirmed that Kingdom Hearts IV volition merchandise successful precocious 2027, promising fans that this day would not get delayed.

"One past happening I wanted to share: we announced the crippled volition travel precocious 2027. Online, immoderate radical were saying the merchandise day mightiness get pushed back. I privation to acceptable the grounds straight: that is not happening," Nomura said.

With a steadfast merchandise day successful sight, fans are returning to Destiny Islands to refresh their memories and acquisition the bid again earlier delving into the latest game. For a recap connected the communicative truthful far, you tin ticker IGN’s video explaining the lore of Kingdom Hearts successful 5 minutes, which is nary tiny feat, considering however heavy the iceberg goes.

Virginia (she/her) is IGN’s News Editor. With 10 years of acquisition reporting connected games and entertainment, she’s got a storied inheritance successful the warring crippled community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her connected Twitter astatine @TheeMissGlaze.