Except for Crimson Desert, one of many hottest video games (on PC, anyway) is the pirate sandbox MMO Windrose, which is rapidly crusing up the Steam charts with over 100,000 gamers swashbuckling three days after launch.
In line with the participant tracker SteamDB, Windrose has a concurrent player count of 102,999 gamers. That places it at the No. 11 spot on the Most Played Games list, beating out the life sim Stardew Valley (~100,000) however trailing behind the action-adventure RPG Crimson Desert (~113,000). It is nowhere close to the likes of Counter Strike 2 (~1.4 million) or Slay the Spire 2 (~286,000); nonetheless, for a sport that hit early entry on April 14, reaching an all-time peak of 113,930 and never simply sustaining that however nearly cresting that’s a formidable feat to behold.
It is sensible, in a means. With over 4,500 opinions that quantity to a “very positive” rating on Steam, Windrose harkens again to a sport like Risen–if it had been truly good–and proves players are determined for extra pirate adventures. Who does not like pillaging and plundering? And with the studies that the Black Flag remake, formally titled Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced, is launching on July 9, it seems now’s the time for pirates to dominate simply as ninja and samurai have.
Really, Black Flag was an inspiration for Windrose. In line with producer Phil, AKA Yar_maste, developer Kraken Specific referred to as Ubisoft’s famed 2013 pirate sim the “finest pirate sport of all time.” Black Flag, Phil stated that the pirate area of interest is “nonetheless underserved right this moment” and hopes that Windrose sings that sea shanty.
Whereas Windrose could also be catching that wind in its sails, it is at present a PC-only title. Kraken Specific has expressed curiosity in bringing the sport to consoles, however the group informed GameSpot in an announcement on April 14 that there are not any “updates about Windrose on consoles.” That does not imply the group is not passionate about an eventual console launch, however that it is not imminent or speedy and, as an alternative, the precedence is the 1.0 launch.