Helldivers 2 did not have a large-scale marketing campaign and one would hardly think that the game would attract so many users.
Over a million copies have already been sold and the number of active users is growing every day. But just a few months ago, you might have thought that a game that could become one of the best co-op shooters of the year would go unnoticed.
Arrowhead Game Studios boss Johan Pilestedt revealed that the project was in production for 7 years, 11 months and 26 days. This means that it has been 8 years since work on the game began, and judging by the gratitude of the fans, it can be assumed that the idea was born in Pilestedt’s head even earlier.
“This game has been stuck in my head since my online friends and I tried to make an SST mod for the original Serious Sam/mod to the original AVP to bring the experience and slapstick to life.”