Rainbow Six Siege’s “most transformative” replace within the sport’s 10-year historical past, Siege X, went reside this week. It was seemingly embraced by gamers, as the sport’s Steam numbers jumped considerably following the debut of Siege X.
Data from SteamDB exhibits an enormous spike in gamers on June 10 with the Siege X launch, peaking at round 142,000 concurrent gamers on Steam. It is nonetheless beneath Siege’s all-time peak of 201,933 achieved on Could 17, 2024, however it’s a powerful achieve all the identical as folks returned to Siege or tried it for the primary time to take a look at the Siege X replace and all of its new options and performance.
Siege is at the moment inside the top five best-selling Steam games and inside the top 10 most-played games. Steam shares this information publicly, however Microsoft and Sony don’t share related gross sales or engagement information for the Xbox and PlayStation shops.
The Siege X replace offers the sport a makeover, of types, with better-looking graphics and improved sound. There’s additionally brand-new 6v6 mode, Twin Entrance, amongst quite a few different updates and enhancements.
Rainbow Six Siege initially launched in 2015 and has been steadily supported and developed over time with constant updates. It reached 85 million gamers previous to the Siege X replace.