Editing Limbo (section)

===Sales and accolades===
Prior to its release, ''Limbo'' was awarded both the "Technical Excellence" and "Excellence in Visual Art" titles at the Independent Games Festival at the 2010 [[Game Developers Conference]].<ref name="ign igf awards">{{Cite web | url  = http://pc.ign.com/articles/107/1077086p1.html | title = GDC 10: Independent Games Festival Award Winners | first = Daemon | last = Hatfield | date = 2010-03-10 | accessdate = 2010-07-21 | publisher = [[IGN]] }}</ref> At the 2010 [[Electronic Entertainment Expo]], about a month before its release, ''Limbo'' won [[Gamespot]]'s "Best Downloadable Game",<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://e3.gamespot.com/best-of-e3-2010/special-achievement/index.html?page=1 | title = Best Downloadable Game | date = 2010-06-08 | accessdate =2010-08-26 | publisher = [[Gamespot]] }}</ref> and was nominated for several other "Best of Show" awards, including "Best Platformer" by [[IGN]],<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://games.ign.com/articles/109/1094418p1.html | title = E3 2010: Best of E3 Awards | date = 2010-06-17 | accessdate = 2010-08-26 | publisher = [[IGN]] }}</ref> "Most Original Game" by G4 TV,<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/705779/X-Play--G4tvcoms-Best-Of-E3-2010-Awards.html | title = X-Play & G4tv.com's Best Of E3 2010 Awards | first = Andrew | last = Pfister | date =2010-06-24 | accessdate =2010-08-26 | publisher = G4 TV }}</ref> and "Best Puzzle Game" by Gamespot,<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://e3.gamespot.com/best-of-e3-2010/genre-awards/index.html?page=5 | title = Best Puzzle Game | date = 2010-06-08 | accessdate = 2010-08-26 | publisher = [[Gamespot]] }}</ref> The game was nominated as one of 32 finalists in the 2010 IndieCade festival for independent developers.<ref>{{Cite web | url=  http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/30235/IndieCade_2010_Announces_Finalists_For_October_Festival.php | title = IndieCade 2010 Announces Finalists For October Festival | first =Eric | last = Caolli | date = 2010-09-03 | accessdate =2010-09-03 | publisher = [[Gamasutra]] }}</ref>

''Game Informer'' named ''Limbo'' their Game of the Month for August 2010.<ref name="gi review"/> Within two weeks of its release on Xbox Live Arcade, ''Limbo'' gained over 244,000 players to the global leaderboards—a rough measure of full sales of the game—which was considered a "incredibly impressive feat" compared to previously released Xbox Live Arcade titles, according to GamerBytes' Ryan Langley.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29817/InDepth_Xbox_Live_Arcade_Sales_Analysis_July_2010.php | title= In-Depth: Xbox Live Arcade Sales Analysis, July 2010 | publisher = [[Gamasutra]] | date = 2010-08-11 | accessdate = 2010-08-11 | first = Ryan | last= Langley }}</ref> Within a month of its release, over 300,000 copies of the game were sold.<ref name="gamasutra gdc"/> By the end of August 2010, the number of players on the global leaderboard grew to 371,000, exceeding the number of players of other Summer of Arcade games released in 2009 and approaching the number of lifetime players of ''Braid'' released two years prior; Langley, who had expected ''Limbo''{{'}}s sales to fall "due to the lack of repeatable content and being a strictly single player experience", considered that these figures have "beaten everyone’s expectations."<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.gamerbytes.com/2010/09/indepth_xbox_live_arcade_sales_14.php | title = XBLA: In-Depth: Xbox Live Arcade Sales Analysis, August 2010 | date = 2010-09-07 | accessdate = 2010-09-07 | publisher = Gamerbytes | first = Ryan | last = Langley }}</ref>

''Limbo'' was named "Game of the Year", "Best Indie Game", and "Best Visual Art" at the 2010 European Milthon Awards during the Paris Game Show in September 2010.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.milthon.com/palmares-2010.html | title = 2010 Milthons Awards | date = September 2010 | accessdate = 2010-09-15 | publisher = Games-Fed }}</ref> [[IGN]] named it the 3rd best Xbox Live Arcade title of all time in a September 2010 list.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/112/1120887p1.html | title = The Top 25 Xbox Live Arcade Games | publisher = [[IGN]] | date = 2010-09-16 | accessdate = 2010-09-16 }}</ref>