Helldivers 2 Surpasses 57,000 Concurrent Players on Steam at Launch

Helldivers 2 could not have the mass market cache that different first-party Sony properties like God of Conflict, Spider-Man, The Final of Us, or others have, however the co-op third-person shooter remains to be a sport that many have been trying ahead to for some time now, and the joy that it has generated is being mirrored in its gamers numbers immediately upon launch. 

Helldivers 2 grew to become accessible on PC and PS5 roughly three hours in the past, and it has began sturdy. As per SteamDB, on the time of writing, it has hit a peak of 57,110 players- and that quantity remains to be rising, so this may increasingly very properly already be outdated by the point you’re studying this report.

That spectacular quantity means Helldivers 2 can be the third-best launch on Steam for a PlayStation Studios sport up to now, surpassing the likes of Horizon Zero Daybreak, The Final of Us Half 1, Days Gone, and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. It at the moment ranks solely behind God of Conflict (peak of 73,529 concurrent customers) and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (peak of 66,436 concurrent customers). You’ll be able to try a rating of all PlayStation Studios PC launches beneath. 

Developer Arrowhead Sport Studios has confirmed that it intends to launch loads of post-launch content material for Helldivers 2, together with new biomes, enemies, aims, and extra, all of which can be free. On prime of that, free story updates are additionally deliberate. 

Helldivers 2 is out there on PS5 and PC.