Upon its launch in February, Helldivers 2 obtained off to a greater begin than virtually anybody may have anticipated, attracting gamers on each PS5 and PC in droves and promoting at a quicker tempo than even Sony would have anticipated. Two months on from its launch, the co-op shooter is continuous to keep up momentum in spectacular style.
As per SteamDB, on Sunday, April 7, Helldivers 2 peaked at 345,188 concurrent gamers on Steam, the best quantity it’s seen in roughly three weeks, whereas on the time of writing, it’s being performed concurrently by over 157,000 gamers. In the meantime, over on Steam’s prime vendor charts, Helldivers 2 is at the moment the best promoting paid title, sitting at No. 2 total within the charts, behind the free-to-play Counter-Strike 2.
Video games sustaining their spectacular gross sales and participant numbers two months on from launch isn’t one thing we see too typically, even when the sport in query is a reside service title. It helps, in fact, that Helldivers 2 has achieved a superb job of maintaining gamers engaged with its reside operations, whether or not that’s by way of new content material and have additions, ongoing storytelling, or extra.
February was a stellar month for Helldivers 2, which emerged because the best-selling sport of the month in each the US and the UK, in addition to essentially the most downloaded PS5 sport on PlayStation Plus. The co-op shooter’s all-time concurrent customers peak on Steam additionally sits at over 458,000, the twentieth highest any sport has ever seen on the platform.
Helldivers 2 was additionally the best-selling sport within the UK in March, and is at the moment outpacing Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s gross sales within the area. Sony has but to announce official gross sales figures for the multiplayer shooter, however analysts estimated near a month in the past that it had offered over 8 million items.
Helldivers 2 is obtainable on PS5 and PC.
