Last year, Riot (which is 100% owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent) proudly proclaimed that Valorant, its PC exclusive FPS, had 14 million monthly active players. In April, Activision disclosed to investors that, while Call of Duty as a whole draws in over 100 million users every month, it actually lost 50 million users over 2021. When we do get real, useful numbers from a company, it's usually because it wants to share good news or is legally obligated to share bad news. And from developers, we typically get data based on proprietary definitions that can't be taken at face value. So to recap: from Steam itself, we get a stream of public data that is constant but incomplete, and masquerades as an accurate picture of a game's total health. And as those artificially-high numbers understandably tumbled, players quickly pointed to that data as evidence that bugs and other perceived issues were taking a toll on New World. But the disproportionate number of people waiting to play the game inflated New World's concurrency figure because an unusual number of people were keeping the game open for hours on end just to log in. A week after launch, New World made headlines when it peaked at over 900,000 concurrent players, the high point of any new game in 2021.Įven Amazon itself touted these numbers, with Jeff Bezos celebrating its popularity on Twitter three days after launch. When New World released, servers were crammed as tens of thousands had to wait in line to play. Steam stats are a great way to see a snapshot of what PC gamers are currently interested in, but they can paint a misleading picture. If you wanted to twist the truth, you could say that CS:GO, probably the most-played game on Steam of the last decade, has 'fallen dramatically' from its 1.3M peak in 2020 to a measly 586,000 average players this month. No game in the history of Steam has added players continuously since its launch. But any Wall Street analyst or economist would tell you that it is actually quite normal for numbers to go up and down. Checking Sea of Thieves’ page, I can see its community has climbed and dipped over the years with normal fluctuation and still attracts a healthy 17,000 simultaneous players daily on Steam-just 0.5% of that stated 30 million total, but still plenty of pirates to plunder.Īt some point in the service game craze, we started treating games like stocks. Third-party sites like Steam Charts use Steam’s freely available API to compile the data into historical graphs. Steam’s official stats page shares a live list of the top 100 most-played games at that moment. User tracking is a prerequisite to publish on Steam that not even the biggest publishers can get around. You can read more about this in our material.If I’m considering playing Sea of Thieves and want to know if there are still lots of people playing it right now, Rare's official stats aren’t much help.īetween every gaming platform, there’s only one that shares raw concurrent player data: Steam. The reason for this was technical problems. The hired hitman's goal is to kill Colt in order not to let him out of the time loop.Įarlier, we talked about the fact that the game was not able to earn an enchanting reaction from the players and, unlike game journalists, ordinary users rated Deathloop not as well as expected. A special feature of Deathloop is the ability to take control of Julianne by another player and arrange an interesting PVP. In addition to ordinary rivals, Colt will get in the way of another character - Julianne, who is an assassin. If Colt is killed, he will be forced to live his day again until he has killed all eight targets. He is tasked with killing eight targets in one day and breaking the time loop in which he is stuck. In the center of the plot is the dark-skinned mercenary Colte, who has lost his memory and got into a time loop. The announcement of the game took place in 2019 at the E3 exhibition, and the title itself is an action-adventure. Bethesda Softworks were responsible for distributing the title from Arkane Studio. The sensational survival game in the Scandinavian setting Valheim closes the top ten most popular games from September 13 to 16.ĭeathloop is a game that was released on September 14th for PC and PlayStation 5. It is followed by the Timberborn strategy game, the Valve Index VR Kit and the online role-playing game New World. NBA 2K22 opened the second five of the weekly chart and ranked 6th on the list. The latter, by the way, is now subject to a 33% discount. The top 5 popular games from September 13 to September 19 are closed by the second part of Red Dead Redemption. In second place, the title from Arkane Studios left Tales of Arise, and in fourth place was the next battle royale Naraka: Bladepoint. Deathloop is at the same time on the first and third lines. The game from Arkane Studios has become the leader in the weekly Steam chart.
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