Starfield Has Already Shattered Skyrim's Concurrent Player Peak On Steam

With EA Sports FC 24, the first game in Electronic Arts' post-FIFA world, just a few days from launch, last year's FIFA 23, and all other games in the FIFA series, have been removed from sale on Steam, Epic, and other digital storefronts.

Starfield is definitely one of Bethesda's more controversial titles. Sure, it's currently boasting numbers bigger than Skyrim, but opinions on the game's quality are all over the place. There's no place where this is more evident than the game's Steam page, which is currently sat at a Mostly Positive rating after almost 90,000 user reviews. However, almost 25,000 of those are negative, meaning Starfield is now Bethesda's lowest-rated game on the platform, dropping slightly below previous record holder Fallout 76.

When it comes to the big AAA titles that companies have been potentially several years into making, they want nothing more than to hear that the games have done well sales-wise and are soaring into the history books in one form or another. Obviously, that doesn’t always happen, but it’s nice to think that it can with the title that you’re making. Bethesda took a big risk when they made Starfield because they were making a new IP for the first time in a long time and kept delaying the game so that it would be as good as possible at launch.

Bethesda Game Studios has announced that Starfield has surpassed ten million players across all platforms, reinforcing its status as the biggest launch ever for the developer.

Having already surpassed Skyrim and Fallout by becoming Bethesda’s biggest launch to date - with over six million players, according to the developer - Starfield has now smashed another of its predecessor’s records.

Starfield has already smashed Skyrim's concurrent player record on Steam.

Starfield has been continuing to set records as its momentum keeps growing as potentially 2023’s biggest release.

Starfield has managed to attract more concurrent players on Steam than Skyrim ever has.

Starfield has got off to a flying start, having enjoyed the biggest launch ever for a Bethesda game with over 6 million players across all platforms on the day of its release. Unsurprisingly, the numbers have kept steadily climbing over the course of the weekend as well, as evidenced by its figures on Steam.

Cursed ship designs were always an inevitability with Starfield, and after two full days in the wild, players have already made some wildly funky and plainly cool ships. Scrolling through social media channels, you’ll find that players have hammered away at their own unique designs while also creatively remaking other iconic vessels from Mass Effect, Star Wars, Halo and, of course, our friend Thomas The Tank Engine. There’s also been a shocking lack of, uhm, male organ-shaped spacecraft which makes putting this post together much less hard. But for now, onward! Let’s admire some cool ships.

Starfield has exceeded 1 million concurrent players across all platforms within 24 hours of launch.

Starfield left its early access period yesterday (September 6), and managed to quickly surpass a whopping one million players across all platforms, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has confirmed.