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Private Division's Rollerdome has hit one million players

Neowiz has announced that Lies of P has reached seven million players

Sabotage Studio announced a milestone of five million players for Sea of Stars this week and released a teaser showing off an upcoming three player couch co-op mode for the game.

The latest update for Kerbal Space Program 2 launched on Tuesday and has provided some much-needed Delta-V to a game that’s been struggling to break orbit. Following the update, KSP2 saw a whopping 1,700% jump in its player count on Steam as fans scrambled to experience the “For Science!” update. While it’s already received a number of bug fixes and other adjustments, “For Science!” represents the first substantial content update for KSP2 since its launch back in February.

Monster Hunter World has seen a giant player spike on Steam following Capcom's campaign to revive the game's online scene.

Controversial Early Access game The Day Before has seen its player count fall almost 90% after just four days and entered Steam's 10 worst reviewed games of all time list.

Zombie MMO The Day Before has seemingly lost three-quarters of its player base since it release to overwhelmingly bad reviews just two days ago.

The first season for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set to arrive tomorrow, 6th December, across platforms. This will see a variety of in-game content added, including new Warzone map Urzikstan. This map will launch with 100 player count and, as noted by CharlieIntel, it is 20 percent smaller than the series' Al Mazrah map.

There are numerous ways to tell if a video game is “on the decline” in players’ minds. Though, to be fair, part of said “decline” depends on the type of game it is. For example, if it’s a game that’s all about a story campaign, it’s not uncommon for gamers to buy the title, play through the campaign once, and then put the title down for a long time. But for games like Destiny 2, they are built upon the idea of gamers playing it for a long time and consistently coming back to it for one reason or another.

Destiny 2’s player count has fallen to a historic low on Steam.

When it comes to open-world zombie survival experiences, many can’t claim to be as brutal and unforgiving as DayZ. Bohemia Interactive’s dystopian food scavenger simulator is still going strong, but recently it hit its biggest player count on Steam.

At this point, you know how important Starfield has become to both Bethesda and Xbox. No matter what you think of the game, it was the biggest title Bethesda ever launched regarding sales and easily the biggest success that Xbox has had in a while, if not ever. Bethesda worked for eight years to make the title and tried to make it something that would blow people’s minds. At first, that seemed to be the case, as it followed some of the “hallmarks” of past Bethesda titles while being set in a new galaxy. But as time went on, people started to “open their eyes” and see what it was and what it wasn’t.

The original DayZ mod was released in 2012 to near-instant popularity and, come December, it'll be ten years since the standalone game entered early access on Steam. Originally launched in a pretty barebones state, the idea was always to build-out DayZ over the years to come and Bohemia Interactive has done just that: with a sizeable patch last week leading to the game's largest number of concurrent players ever: 69,449, per Steamdb.

The number of people playing Starfield on Steam has slipped under the concurrent player count for the 12-year-old Skyrim, just two months after Bethesda proclaimed the sci-fi exploration epic as their biggest game launch to date.

Last Friday, Epic Games launched the so-called Fortnite Season OG, taking the Battle Royale game back in time to its very beginning in 2018.

Fortnite has broken yet another one of its records by reaching a massively higher player count than ever before. Millions of players around the world have picked up the pickaxe once again, thanks to the launch of a new season.

One month after launch, Payday 3's PC player count has dropped to around 10 times less than that of its predecessor, Payday 2.

Halo Infinite is enjoying a modest resurgence following the release of Season 5: Reckoning.

Almost two years after its release, Battlefield 2042 has greatly managed to turn things around, and it's got the player numbers to prove it.

Assassin's Creed Mirage hit PlayStation, Xbox, and PC last week and both critics and fans alike are quite happy with the series return to its roots. Unlike Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla, in which Basim is featured, Mirage is a smaller, more condensed adventure, unlike the prior open-world RPGs. Now, roughly a week later, Ubisoft has revealed that Mirage's player count is in line with Origins and Odyssey. Plus, Mirage is Ubisoft's biggest new-gen launch in terms of sales. 

Ubisoft has revealed some details about the debut of Assassin's Creed Mirage, saying its player count is "in line" with the previous launches like Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey.

I really wanted to like The Lord of the Rings Gollum. While the premise was a little more obscure than other LotR games, the character’s complexity and the advertised Smeagol vs Gollum system piqued my interest. However, Gollum’s bizarre underground adventure failed to live up to expectations – something that its Steam player count reflects.

A new BattleBit update is here to breathe even more life into the multiplayer shooter, as a new map, XP changes and a series of quality-of-life improvements come to the game. The 2.1.9 update comes at a time when BattleBit’s player count is the lowest it’s ever been, though, with the current player numbers around just 12.5% of what they were at launch, or roughly a 90% drop off.

It took six months, but Redfall's 60 FPS performance mode is here.

Redfall's player count has dropped so low on Steam that players might find it tough to fill up their team in multiplayer.

It has not been a good run for Redfall, the vampire FPS from the Austin branch of Arkane Studios, and Bethesda doesn’t appear to be giving up on it. Having said that, so few people are playing the game that it’s tough to imagine how it will ever recover.

Interest in vampire-hunting co-op shooter Redfall has dwindled to the extent that the game's concurrent Steam player count is now regularly dropping to single digits. At times, the number of players has been so low that there aren't even enough people to fill a single full four-player co-op team.

With a dwindling player count, a promised 60fps patch still not out, and months of silence from its developer, Redfall may be on its last legs.

Redfall didn't exactly have a great time of it at launch, releasing to pretty negative critical reception and a legion of upset fans due to bugs and underwhelming gameplay. Despite this, Redfall managed to garner a prettty respectable peak player count of 6,124 players on Steam close to launch, but fast forward five months and things are looking very bleak.

New World launched its first paid expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, yesterday, and the excitement new content — especially mounts — has brought to Amazon's MMO has seen a return in queues and a rise in player count.

If at first you don't succeed, patch, patch, and patch again. You might already have noticed, but Cyberpunk 2077 is having a bit of a renaissance this month, on the back of its sweeping 2.0 update and yesterday's release of its (really rather good) Phantom Liberty expansion. In No Man's Sky-like fashion, Cyberpunk seems like it's finally making good three years after its disastrous launch, and hey, it looks like people are taking notice.

With the release of Phantom Liberty, thousands of players are flocking back to the game.

The newly launched Phantom Liberty expansion has led to Cyberpunk 2077's highest count of Steam players since its original launch in December 2020. SteamDB shows that within the last 24 hours, the expansion has garnered nearly 246,800 concurrent players. 

Cyberpunk 2077's latest huge overhaul has led to another player spike, and it's enough to compete with new releases. Cyberpunk is now just behind Starfield on the Steam charts and was even briefly ahead of it earlier today.

Six million players have «explored Ghostwire: Tokyo's spooky streets».

As expected, Bethesda's sci-fi RPG epic Starfield saw a major player spike on Steam over the first weekend since its full release on September 6, surpassing more than 330,000 concurrent players according to SteamDB. That's good enough to put it well past Skyrim, which broke more than 287,000 when it launched back in 2011, but still well back from Bethesda's number-one game, Fallout 4, which had nearly 473,000 concurrents in 2015.

AEW Fight Forever will get its promised 30-player mode this week, just as the Steam version’s average player count has dropped below 30 for the first time.

Oh, look! It’s time for yet another news story about how Blizzard isn’t worried about what’s going wrong with Overwatch 2! Fun times, wouldn’t you say? Jokes aside, Blizzard has been doing everything in its power to not admit fault with what’s gone wrong with the title and “reassure fans” that things will be fine. Players of the game will tell you it’s not going fine, and it’d take quite a bit to get things back to the OG title’s quality. Another way you can easily see that things aren’t going well with the game is its declining player base.

CRPGs such as Baldur’s Gate 3 have typically been regarded as niche titles. Even in their heyday in the late '90s and early 2000s so it seems that just about everyone – Larian included – is surprised at just how many people have been playing the game since it’s PC release. And nopw, we’ll be taking a look at the Baldur's Gate 3 player count to answer how many people are playing BG3.

Though it entered early access several days earlier, Gunfire Games’ Remnant 2 became available to all players on July 25th. After ranking highly in the Steam Top Sellers charts, it was expected to perform better than its predecessor on the platform. Thanks to SteamDB, it’s confirmed that the peak concurrent player count hit 110,856 just 20 hours ago.