Helldivers 2 is the newest Sony-published recreation to launch on PC, and it is doing huge numbers, turning into the most well-liked PlayStation title on Steam by peak concurrent participant depend.
The Starship Troopers-inspired co-op shooter is presently driving excessive at a concurrent player peak of 81,840, placing it forward of the 73,529 peak concurrent players of Sony’s PC launch of God of Battle (2018) again in January 2022, in response to SteamDB. Helldivers 2’s peak concurrent gamers are additionally increased than that of Insomniac’s Spider-Man, which peaked at 66,436 gamers shortly after its PC launch in August 2022.
Helldivers 2 has been the best-selling recreation on Steam by income because it launched, and it’s as of writing the sixteenth most-played-game on Steam by concurrent participant depend, the place it’s presently forward of video games like Warframe and indie-sensation Deadly Firm. Not like different PlayStation ports for PC, Helldivers 2 launched on each PS5 and Steam on the similar time. Helldivers 2 can be multiplayer centered, whereas different PlayStation video games ported to PC like Days Gone, God of Battle, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Assortment, Spider-Man, and Horizon Zero Daybreak have all been single-player video games.
The success of Helldivers 2 has been a double-edged sword for developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios, who in a submit on the official Helldivers 2 Discord said the crew was in “disaster mode” seeking to deal with numerous technical points like crashes and damaged matchmaking. The sport has obtained a number of updates since launch to handle these points, which seems to have pushed the typical user review score for Helldivers 2 from “Blended” shortly after launch to “Largely Constructive” as of writing.
Helldivers 2 helps cross-play between gamers on PS5 and PC, and Arrowhead has promised free content material updates for the shooter that can introduce new threats and challenges for gamers to beat.