VGChartz’s Craig Snow: “The Break-out Sales Surprise Award is one of my personal favourite game of the year categories, celebrating as it does the site’s raison d’être. This year’s shortlist includes a retro-stylised classic RPG, a westerner-friendly entry in a previously heavily Japanese-oriented series, a rare case of an adventure game with a highly successful physical release, and a spin on a licensed IP that managed to completely blow all previous entries’ sales records out of the water.”
Source: N4G PC Break-out Sales Surprise of 2018