Elden Ring Now Has The Sixth Highest Peak Concurrent Player Count On Steam Ever

Fans can’t seem to get enough ofElden Ringat the moment, as the game has amassed a huge yet loyal following.Elden Ringhas become particularly popular on Steam where it surpassed its own concurrent peak player count around 2 weeks after its launch, which is uncommon in the gaming industry.

The game’s success is hardly surprising at this point, asElden Ringis one of the highest-rated games ever made. The game is currently sitting 15th on Metacritic’s list of the best games ever released withThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildnarrowly beating it out. This is an exceptionally notable accolade for FromSoftware, as the company’s firstSoulsgame,Demon’s Soulswas somewhat of a niche title with a cult following, whereasElden Ringhas garnered respect and admiration from the industry at large.

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The industry-wide praise the game received culminated inElden Ringhaving over 600,000 concurrent players on Steamonly an hour after its launch. Most other games experience a drop-off in players once they have reached their initial peak player counts within a week of release, however, this was not the case forElden Ring, as the game’s player count has continued to rise since its release.

This led toElden Ringhaving the sixth-highest concurrent player count on Steam ever.Elden Ringhad a player count of 953,426 over the weekend, which surpassed the previous sixth place game,New World, by a reasonably sizable margin. It is uncertain as to whether or notElden Ringwill surpassCyberpunk 2077’s exceptionally high peak of 1,054,388 players, as most story-focused games lose players as time goes on.

Steam was not the only platform where the game excelled, asElden Ringwas also able to tripleDark Souls 3’s peak Twitch viewer counton the day of its release.Dark Souls 3had a peak Twitch viewer count of 276,000 viewers whileElden Ringsoared past this number by having 890,000 viewers on the day of its release.

Despite all of the praise the game received,Elden Ringhad a mixed review score on Steam owing to its performance issuesat launch. Thankfully, Bandai Namco attended to the vast majority of these issues, which improved the game’s reception rating on Steam to “Very Positive” with 84% of reviewers on the platform now giving the game a positive rating at the time of this writing.

Elden Ringis available now on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.