Why Invincible VS Became the Week’s Most Talked-About Title

By Zaccheus Mukahiwa

Minute Read

Updated 20/04/2026

Posted 14/04/2026

Welcome back to Fancensus Spotlight, LinkedIn's most reliable source for video game digital storefront performance. All data here is curated by the Fancensus team via our Fusion platform. You'll notice each title has a Flare Score. This is the percentage of discoverability placements across console homepages, banners and curated sections. It gives a clear indicator of who's actually visible when billions of gamers open their stores.

This week (6th–12th April), our Console Discoverability deep dive focused exclusively on Deals Page visibility, where Xbox went all-in on its Spring Sale while PlayStation gave Forza Horizon 5 room to dominate. Let's unpack the data.

Console Discoverability

Xbox Deals pages were completely dominated by the Spring Sale promotion, featuring big discounts across AAA titles and leaving little room for anything else. EA Sports FC 26 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 tied for 100 Flare Score, both securing solo placements on the deals dashboard – FC 26 at 50% off (standard edition most visible) and BO7 at 45% off (split between standard and Vault editions).

Arc Raiders followed at 85 Flare Score, included in the Spring Sale after its major Flashpoint update a few weeks prior, though it had fewer solo dashboard placements than the top two. Forza Horizon 5 (78 Flare Score) and The Elder Scrolls Online (75 Flare Score) rounded out visibility through the same sale mechanics, with TESO pushing a 75% discount tied to its new free-content Season Zero: Dawn and Dusk model.

Forza Horizon 5 owned PlayStation Deals at 100 Flare Score with a 40% discount, where 50% of placements were sponsored, and the most visible placements in the Featured section. Effectively overtaking the dashboard and crowding out other titles. The remaining titles were pushed to the PS Plus exclusive sales section with the following sales:

  • Who's Your Daddy (15 Flare Score) at 40% off
  • Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 (13 Flare Score) at 70% off
  • Nascar 25 (13 Flare Score) at 25% off
  • Absolum (9 Flare Score) at 20% off

Press & Social – Next 30 Days

Returnal's spiritual successor, Saros (5th), benefited from strong X performance ahead of its 30th April launch. A 40-second combat gameplay post by Housemarque reached 450k views on X, while PlayStation's preview trailer gathered 250k views. that peaked activity on 9th April.

Mouse: P.I. For Hire (4th) built to its 16th April launch with a "meet the cast" reveal featuring Troy Baker as Jack Pepper, and the PlaySide Studios launch trailer which hit over 2 million views on YouTube.

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream (3rd) heads to Switch/Switch 2 on 16th April with region-specific pre-order bonuses like UK acrylic frames and Japanese Mii stickers. Its free demo continues powering content creation, with top influencers pulling >100k views on YouTube/TikTok gameplay clips and tutorials.

Pragmata (2nd) ramps to its 17th April launch with press and social media focused on building excitement around the combat, story and environments. In more recent news, Pragmata receives extremely positive reviews after the embargo lifted yesterday, achieving an impressive 87/100 (not included in these results).

Top Title Spotlight

Invincible VS led last week's conversation after launching its open beta (8th–11th April) ahead of the 30th April full release. Press peaked on 8th April around the official beta trailer, director comments ("everyone should play every fighting game" to PC Gamer), and mechanics guides. While not the leading title in press activity, the title still featured in 180 article headlines across 150+ unique sites.

Social media exploded with playable access: Twitch stars like Maximilian Dood, LilyPichu and Im_Dontai streamed extensively, with top streams reaching over 135k viewers. On YouTube SpectreX Gaming's Omni-Man intro video hit 2.5m views, while on TikTok a seperate video of theirs reached 1.3m views. IGN's Open Beta trailer reached 450k YouTube views while PlayStation's X post got 200k views.