Seems to be like PlayStation’s PC technique is paying off. Helldivers 2, the third-person co-op shooter that launched Thursday, has change into the corporate’s largest Steam launch so far.
In keeping with SteamDB, Helldivers 2 has reached 81,840 peak concurrent gamers on Steam simply sooner or later after launch. (It’s since dropped to round 66,000 on the time of this writing.) That beats God of Warfare (2018)’s earlier concurrent peak of 73,529 when it hit PC again in 2022.
PlayStation has been trying to develop its choices past simply the PlayStation 5, so it’s launched many first-party video games on Steam months or years after console launch. Simply in 2023, it put out Returnal and The Final of Us Half 1 for PC. Horizon Forbidden West and an Till Daybreak remaster are on the best way as properly.
Nonetheless, Helldivers 2 is the primary PlayStation-published sport to hit PS5 and PC concurrently. Its day-one launch on PC may clarify the excessive participant depend. In any case, God of Warfare had already been out for years on PlayStation 4 by the point it hit PC, so there’s lots much less momentum. Nonetheless, Helldivers 2 is a little bit of a distinct segment title and is way smaller in scope in comparison with the AAA titles PlayStation beforehand delivered to the platform.
Simon Carless, founding father of GameDiscoverCo, which tracks and analyzes Steam utilization, stated that the sport’s success comes down lots to co-op.
“I believe co-op is vital, and persons are all the time in search of AAA-looking co-op video games they will attempt with their buddies. And the unique Helldivers being one other nice co-op sport (though extra of a twin-stick shooter!) is a superb lead-in to the sequel,” he instructed gamerjive.
At present, Helldivers 2 has a blended score on Steam with simply over 10,800 evaluations. Like many different multiplayer video games, it had a tough launch, with server and matchmaking points. Gamers have additionally reported issues with Nprotect Gameguard (the sport’s anti-cheat software program) that would forestall the sport from launching. Developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios has been engaged on fixes, and launched a patch. I performed the sport for 3 hours final night time and didn’t encounter too many points moreover some quickplay timeouts.
