Although it is almost 10 years old, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is seeing numbers it hasn’t seen since launch.
📈 concurrent players up 1000%
🏆 peak in achievement activity across all platforms
The cause? Various meme templates featuring characters from the game went viral.
Based on our user sampling data so far, PlayTracker estimates
#Starfield
has far surpassed the 1M player milestone on both Steam and XBOX with just the Premium Edition buyers.
Sampling data comes in slowly, with a delay. Full launch is tomorrow, we'll be watching the fireworks.
Just a few hours after Valve launched a new update to celebrate the game's 25th anniversary, the original
#HalfLife
has reached a new all-time high of almost 14 thousand concurrent players.
@TMllIll
Hahahaha, fair.
TBH we didn't even call it machine learning at first until people told us it was machine learning! To us it was just "well, if we are overestimating the games this user plays, maybe that user is over represented in our sample and we should weigh them less".
A popular theory put to the test: is
@PlayStation
's entry into the PC market simply a promotional tool for their newer console-exclusive games?
The answer seems to be no.
Fewer than 1% of HZD sales on Steam resulted in a conversion into a
#HorizonForbiddenWest
sale on console.
#RobocopRogueCity
climbed to almost 5K concurrent players during its launch week.
Huge growth since the developer's last major release - Terminator: Resistance - which peaked at only ~1.4K.
#BaldursGate3
is gearing up for a colossal launch with 1.5M+ owners and concurrent player peaks growing exponentially.
Because it is available in EA, we can watch as the stats rise. When the dust settles and the game is out on all platforms, could it be the biggest game of 2023?
As regular edition buyers and Game Pass subscribers begin to pour in, the developers have officially confirmed that
#Starfield
has passed 6M players across both platforms combined.
Introducing PlayTracker Insight:
View stats and graphs on Steam games. Find out how many people own a game, how many are actively playing it, how it has fared over the years, and more. All free, no strings attached.
Titanfall 2 launched on
@Steam
recently and hit PlayTracker Insight's trending games chart at
#3
with ~650K owners.
However, because the Steam version connects to Origin, this Steam release has also caused the Origin version of Titanfall 2 to hit our trending games chart at
#5
!
35% of Horizon Zero Dawn owners on
@Steam
already played the game on
@PlayStation
.
This is a significantly higher "double dip" rate than usual even for delayed PC releases, rivaled only by Grand Theft Auto V.
Our estimates put
#PlayAvengers
launch weekend across all platforms at 1.25 million owners.
This is sure to be a disappointing result after the beta attracted a promising 6M players.
By far the biggest platform was PlayStation, which outpaced XBOX and Steam combined.
We take a look at how Game Pass is affecting Steam activity using cross-platform correlated data.
TLDR:
@XboxGamePassPC
subscribers were less active before, but their activity started trending up after GP launch, even on their
@Steam
accounts.
More here:
Half-Life: Alyx has surpassed 300K owners on Steam ahead of its Monday launch on Monday.
With launch sales it will likely become the top-selling Steam release of 2020 so far, beating games such as TemTem, Wolcen: LOM, Borderlands 3, and Metro Exodus.
Congratulations to
@CyberpunkGame
for having the biggest PC game launch of all time with over 4.72M preorders.
It also broke 1M concurrent players on Steam - the first singleplayer game to do so.
Since
@SeaOfThieves
is the top selling game on
@Steam
right now, a fun fact:
About 40% of Sea of Thieves owners on Steam have played the game before via
@XboxGamePassPC
.
This is the most impressive "double dip" figure we've seen yet. Sea of Thieves has ~400K owners on Steam.
Old habits die hard.
On PlayTracker, Skyrim players who never finished the main quest have played
#Starfield
for 14% more time yet earned 4% fewer achievements than the average Starfield player.
Keep procrastinating, folks. Galaxy ain't going anywhere. 😁
#SpiderManPC
peaked at 60K players on Steam today.
That's 20% ahead of God of War's ~50K Friday launch, which peaked 2 days later at 73K concurrent players.
If Spidey follows the same trajectory, it will break the concurrent player record for PlayStation PC games this Sunday.
Activity across Steam, PlayStation and XBOX shows that
@witchernetflix
is inspiring hundreds of thousands of players to return to the world of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
The game just hit 48K concurrent players on Steam, a high it has not seen since 2016.
The highly anticipated
#Stray
has released and is seeing huge numbers on
@Steam
already!
🚀 over 60K concurrent players and climbing
🐈 over 200K preorders
Once the
@PlayStation
(and PS+) numbers are factored in, it is likely
#Stray
will be one of the biggest releases of 2022.
#NoMansSky
is riding the
#STARFIELD
hype wave with a 26K concurrent player peak on Steam today.
This is the highest peak for the game this year and a 4x growth compared to 10 days ago.
Achievement activity on PlayTracker has also doubled week over week via PlayStation and XBOX.
#Gears5
numbers on Steam may be weak, however our internal data suggests it isn't because the game is unpopular on PC: 5x as many players via Game Pass PC than on Steam.
Of those playing via Game Pass PC, 83% are mainly Steam gamers (own more games on Steam than XBOX).
A somewhat surprising beneficiary of the
#SteamWinterSale
emerged in
@SeaOfThieves
, which saw its biggest Steam concurrent player peaks since (and almost matching) release.
As
@Steam
continues to break revenue and engagement records, it appears a rising tide does lift all boats.
Fall is always the season of big releases in gaming, and this September gets the party started with
#Starfield
tomorrow and a lineup of blockbuster releases to follow over the coming weeks.
What will you be playing?
We created our key art long ago to demonstrate the multi-platform nature of the site.
It has become clear that our graphic has magical powers that summon game franchises to
@Steam
.
Help us decide whom to add next!
A new era for PlayTracker Insight has begun.
View data on games across Steam, PlayStation, XBOX, Origin, and Windows (includes all PC games regardless of launcher).
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The biggest ever update for
#Cyberpunk2077
launched today, and the game predictably skyrocketed in concurrent player numbers, breaking 90K at one point.
How much higher can it go once the weekend hits, and will it go even higher when
#PhantomLiberty
releases next week?
A warm welcome to all the new users joining thanks to
@derTIMSTER
tweet! :)
Our system seems to not play well with some email providers, so if you are having trouble receiving your verification email let us know at marijan
@playtracker
.net and you will be manually verified ASAP.
There’s a reason it's called a “soulslike”.
Among PlayTracker users, 87% of
#LiesofP
players played a FromSoft game, and a staggering 27% unlocked every achievement in at least one of those games.
The Finals - a new free to play multiplayer shooter with a focus on destructive environments - reached an impressive 139,531 concurrent players during open beta, before developers had to implement a temporary login queue to mitigate server issues.
Can it go even higher?
A new infographic about the Epic Games Store released by
@EpicGames
showcases impressive user growth, but troubling conversion as revenue remains flat in a year of incredible growth for gaming.
We compare the newly released numbers with last year's figures:
Let's take a look at some launch week
@Steam
stats for explosive old-school shooter Serious Sam 4:
‣ estimated at 130K owners
‣ peaked above 8K concurrent players
‣ very popular in developer
@Croteam
's home country of Croatia
Insight estimate has Demon's Souls PS5 at 1.6m which is slightly off, but within margin of error and acceptable for our method (sampling).
We've added this figure to our machine learning system which aims to fine tune estimates and is an important part of improving the service.
PlayTracker also estimates that you have too many games in your backlog and instead of buying that new one you should donate to
@RedCrossUkraine
.
#StandWithUkraine
️
#ModernWarfareIII
fully launched on Steam a few days ago and has hit a peak of over 190K concurrent players.
As big as that number may seem, it falls significantly short of the 260K concurrent player peak on MW2's launch weekend, which was also accomplished without
#Warzone
.
Funny tweet for this Sunday, you might don't know but
@PlayTrackerNet
features an art piece in their website in which you can see Aloy, Master Chief, Com. Sheppard and Gordon Freeman, what about this? well, today, in 2020 all 4 IPs are now on Steam 👀
Crazy how things change.
#TheTalosPrinciple2
had a strong launch on Steam, reaching over 7K concurrent players this weekend and almost doubling the peak of its predecessor.
Thanks to glowing reviews from both critics and users, it should do well long-term too.
Our new library page is live now!
🕹️ clean redesigned look
🚀 blazing fast load times
📱 load more without refreshing
🔧 tons of bugs resolved
🔎 setup for future library management features
+ many bugs have been squashed across Insight and Social!
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ will launch simultaneously on Steam and Origin in two weeks.
You will be able to track and compare the popularity of both versions on PlayTracker Insight - we will be rolling out Origin support soon™.
Based on early user sampling data and concurrent players, PlayTracker estimates over 1M launch week sales on Steam (including Steam keys), which would be a record for
@PlayStation
on PC.
More reliable and accurate data will roll in over the next week:
#AssassinsCreedMirage
released today, promising a return to the franchise's roots.
Unity is often talked about as the last "classic formula" Assasssin's Creed. According to our data, fans of that game have drifted away from the franchise over time.
Can Mirage bring them back?
GreedFall has sold over one million copies worldwide. Teer Fradee has been welcoming a lot of new Renaigse!
Thank you so much for making the journey this incredible 💖
One of the most interesting multi-platform developments recently has been
@PlayStation
on
@Steam
, and we've been following it closely.
Two years after
#HorizonZeroDawn
first bowed on Steam, we take a deep dive into this story of extremely consistent sales and stats... 🧵
#SCARLETNEXUS
announced 2 million players worldwide, including Game Pass downloads.
According to our estimates the platform distribution is:
~880K on PlayStation
~810K on XBOX
~320K on Steam
About 500K of the XBOX players were due to Game Pass.
『Celebration mode: ON🔺』
#SCARLETNEXUS
has reached 2 million players worldwide, including loyal fans on Xbox and PC Game Pass.
Thank you very much for supporting the OSF.
Developer Neowiz has confirmed that
#LiesOfP
has sold over 1 million copies.
This is sales, meaning Game Pass numbers are not included. PlayTracker estimates an additional ~1.5M gamers played via Game Pass across XBOX and PC.
Undoubtedly a huge success by every metric.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the citizens of Krat.
Thank you to everyone who helped us and accompanied us and we hope you join in our future journeys as well.
#LiesofP
#DOOMEternal
has sold over 700K copies on Steam in its first week and continues to top Steam's top seller list.
Counter to our forecast last week, it has even outsold
#HalfLifeAlyx
and usurped the throne of top selling Steam release of 2020 so far.
More:
A factor in the success of PlayStation on PC have been “double-dips”: when players buy a game on a 2nd platform despite already owning it.
25% of Steam players of
#GodOfWar
,
#HorizonZeroDawn
and
#SpiderMan
already played on
@PlayStation
, far more than with other recent releases.
Source: PlayTracker's cross-platform database of registered users (>10K).
This is not to say
#HorizonForbiddenWest
did poorly, quote the opposite: PlayTracker Insight estimates it has sold over 2.5M copies just in its launch week.
Coming soon: Lens for PlayTracker Insight - select conditions and create a filter that will target a specific audience, then view data on each game for that audience (with context).
Have ideas for possible filters you'd want to use? Let us know!
More:
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is enjoying a fresh wind of players on Steam, no doubt thanks to
#GotGVol3
hitting cinemas.
10x more concurrent players right now than the average for this year!
It was played by ~11M players since launch, mostly thanks to
#GamePass
and
#PSPlus
.
In a recent earning report, publisher Take-Two announced
#borderlands3
sales are nearing 8 million copies.
This fits with PlayTracker Insight estimates, so here's our platform breakdown:
An unexpected entry to our trending games list this week: 2019's
#NeedForSpeed
Heat.
Due to a 95% off sale and buzz around the upcoming sequel, we estimate the three-year-old game has reached over a million new players.
#HighOnLife
is dominating the end of year charts on
@Xbox
and
@Steam
!
PlayTracker Insight estimates over 2M players on XBOX + Game Pass, around 150K players on Steam during the launch weekend, and continuing to trend upwards on both!
#Exoprimal
has seen underwhelming launch numbers on Steam and PlayStation, but Game Pass players offer a silver lining as XBOX makes up the vast majority of the game's 1M+ players.
Positive reception and word of mouth is spreading. Can this GaaS survive its' extinction event?
Sony has released some data on PS5 games sales, for which PlayTracker Insight has recently started giving estimates. Let's check in:
🔧Ratchet & Clank
Estimate: 1.1M
Official: 1.1M
🚀Returnal
Estimate: 680K
Official: 560K
🕷️Miles Morales (PS4+PS5)
Estimate: 5.8M
Official: 6.5M
#ThisWarOfMine
is the mystery game for PlayTracker Quest February 2022.
Users who completed last month's challenge have been given their keys. The global challenge for March is also themed around that game entirely.
Slava Ukrajini
#StandWithUkraine
We will be
@gamescom
22nd - 24th of August!
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We dive into one of the most interesting launches of the year.
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order was a rare standalone single-player product, the first
#StarWars
game after a rocky
#Battlefront2
launch, and the first EA game on
@Steam
after almost a decade.
PlayTracker launched 5 years ago today.
Since then, we have:
🎮 united over 23K gamers across platforms on Social
🧭 explored 50 free mystery games on Quest
📈 helped hundreds of devs learn more about their audience on Insight
And we're just getting started.
2.0 is live now.
A new graph and stats utilizing playtime data are available for Steam and PlayStation games on Insight for free to all users.
⏳ median playtime stats
📈 a new graph which showcases the distribution of users according to their total playtime
Example
#ELDENRING
data included.
Why is
@PlayStation
betting on PC gaming with
#TheLastofUsRemake
coming to the platform "shortly" after PS5?
It might be franchise's powerful cross-platform appeal: among PC players on PlayTracker,
#TheLastOfUs
is the single most popular PlayStation game by number of owners.
Sony states "ambitions to take
@PlayStation
beyond the console" as one of their reasons for the
@Bungie
purchase.
After several successful Steam launches and the recent acquisition of Nixxes - a studio known for PC ports - PlayStation's presence on Steam looks to be heating up.
Despite record preorders and huge launch day concurrent numbers, Spidey did not swing far ahead of his friends.
Our final launch week estimate lands
#SpiderManPC
at 800K players.
The flagship PlayStation on PC formula so far: 700-800K launch + another 700-800K every 6 months.
New data is now available for PlayStation games on Insight!
🌎 Geography chart - shows the relative popularity of a game by country (adjusted for the overall number of users from the country)
⏱️ Average playtime - total playtime of the average player (only for PS4 & PS5 games)
PlayTracker 2.0 launches tomorrow.
🖌️ A completely revamped interface
🎮 Game labels to organize your library
🗺️ Bigger, better Quest
🛡️ Privacy-first tech
And so much more!
Read the full details:
We've pushed a change to Insight's estimate calculation algorithm.
It used to take into account external factors like concurrent players and reviews, but over time we've found this to be a nerf rather than a buff.
According to our data,
#TheOuterWorlds
is doing very well on Game Pass PC. Just over a day in and already at about half the players of
#Gears5
launch weekend.
This does NOT include the currently unobtainable Epic Game Store data, only Microsoft's XBOX platform.
It has been one year since PlayTracker launched and it's been an amazing ride. Thank you all for your love and support of the site.
To celebrate, there's a new feature live now - titles!
Unlock new titles by perfecting games on any platform.
@AceProGamer123
@thexpaw
@Steam_Spy
The most recent example is Hydroneer. Developer announced they'd sold 100K. We had it at 88K.
This is pretty good, but it's still all rough estimates. Sometimes we are spot on (TLOU2) sometimes we miss the mark (Sea of Thieves Steam at 700K when in reality it had passed 1M).
Absolutely colossal indeed:
#BaldursGate3
peaks at 814K concurrent players.
📈 2nd highest for a 2023 game and top 10 of all time
🚀 9x increase from Divinity: Original Sin 2
#LordsOfTheFallen
reached over 43K concurrent players on Steam on its' launch day a few days ago - a very impressive result.
It beat
#LiesOfP
which scored 19K, but was also available on PC Game Pass day one.
It fell short of
#Remnant2
extremely high peak of 110K.
The PlayTracker desktop app is live now and comes with new features powered by
@TheOverwolf
!
🎮 Faster data sync on PC
🏆 Achievement pinning and tracking during gameplay
🚀 Optimized for minimal performance impact
🗒️ Personal notes for any running game
Our Gaming Replay is here to give you a look back at a year of gaming activity, across all platforms!
🎮 Top Games
🏆 Rarest Achievements
🔍 Niche vs Popular
💕 Whirlwind Romance
☁️ Tag Word Cloud
And more!
See yours here:
Shareable link at the bottom.
In a recent interview with
@GIBiz
, THQ Nordic confirmed SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated had sold over a million copies.
Here's our estimated platform breakdown.
Our development update for July 2020:
TLDR:
‣ owner estimate improvements for Insight (including AI adjustment) coming soon
‣ rest of "Spring" update and a revamped Quest featuring more stuff to do and profile cosmetics to earn coming this Summer
A huge 140K concurrent players launch for
@multiversus
on Steam yesterday as it looks to go even higher today.
A notable detail from our data for last week's early access to the game was the geographical distribution: the game is overperforming significantly in Latin America!
#LostArk
is currently sitting at 477K concurrent players, making it the third game by concurrent players, ahead of PUBG and behind Dota 2 and CS:GO.
This is all paying customers who have access to the 3-day head start. Game officially launches as F2P on Friday.
Our early tracking indicates 250K-500K preorders for
#Borderlands3Steam
.
This is based on a smaller sample size. Our Steam Insight database takes 4-5 days to fully reflect market changes.
A new PlayTracker Quest monthly challenge is live!
Set things ablaze in "Turn up the Heat".
And for those that completed last month's challenge: your mystery free game for May is Puzzle Agent! You can find your key in the gift library on Quest now.
At the request of one of our Patrons, who had need of such a feature, we have implemented and are testing the option to download a JSON file of the data used to create a chart.
For now only on historical data graphs available to Epic-tier Patrons, but coming to all graphs soon.
PlayTracker League rewards have been awarded for all previous seasons to all eligible users!
🎮 New League profile card for all
⭐ Top 25% get a seasonal cover
🏆 Top 10% get a seasonal title
More:
PlayStation game sync on PlayTracker Social is back
and better than ever with new features!
🎮 PS5 games now sync
⏱️ Playtime tracking (PS4+PS5)
🎞️ More profile covers (PS4+PS5)
Profiles should sync up automatically without user intervention. Let us know if you notice any bugs!
Our data shows the Steam version selling around 300k and the total PC ownership above 3 million.
If this EGS only data is correct - Rockstar Launcher and the third party stores that sold keys for it are the real winners.
#RDR2PC
PlayStation games coming to PC have also given their console counterparts a small push.
#HorizonForbbidenWest
received a nice boost from
#HorizonZeroDawn
players on Steam in the months after launch, and
#SpiderMan
games on
@PlayStation
had a bump in activity this week.
#CitiesSkylines2
launches to over 100K concurrent players on Steam, easily beating the all-time peak of the original Cities: Skylines, which was at around 60K.
PlayTracker has a fresh look! The redesigned interface, already featured on Insight, has been rolled out for the Social section of PlayTracker.
For an overview, check out this totally rad dude's profile:
For details on the update:
Over the last month, we've released an absolute mountain of improvements!
🔎 new game search that doesn't suck
🔧 lots of visual improvements to Insight game pages
🕹️ more platforms to show off on your player profile
Get the full scoop here:
At the request of one of our Patrons, who had need of such a feature, we have implemented and are testing the option to download a JSON file of the data used to create a chart.
For now only on historical data graphs available to Epic-tier Patrons, but coming to all graphs soon.
It's time for some housekeeping. Here's what's new:
New navigation menu with an expandable menu for user-specific links and a new search button.
Unified search feature which replaces all existing searches and puts all results on a single page.
More:
We are currently experiencing the
@reddit
hug of death.
If you have experienced errors or slowness, we apologize for that inconvenience. Those issues are now greatly reduced and we are continuing to work on the stability of the site.
And if you are new to our site - welcome! :)
Playtime data is now available for XBOX games on PlayTracker Social!
XBOX Series X/S, XBOX One X/S and PC via XBOX app are all supported. If you've logged in this past week, all your playtime data is already synced and visible.
More on this update: