Phantom Blade Zero has reached a new all-time peak of 833,921 concurrent players on Steam. SteamDB shows the 24-hour and all-time peaks both sitting at that number as of this afternoon. Current concurrent is still above 530,000. The wuxia action RPG from S-GAME launched on October 29. The figure covers Steam only; the game is also on PS5. Weekend numbers remain high.

AION 2 hit 397,905 concurrent players on Steam on its free-to-play launch day. SteamDB lists that figure as both the 24-hour peak and the all-time peak, reached about three hours before the chart. The same page still showed 355,472 in-game, with reviews at 71.34% positive across 9,000 ratings. Paid advanced access had already peaked at 171,530 on September 30, and that window required a Founder’s Pack.

Deadlock set a new Steam concurrent peak of 228,208, according to SteamDB. The invite-only beta is at 184,122 players right now. The 24-hour peak and the all-time peak are the same number, 228,208, hit 23 hours ago. SteamDB had it third for a stretch, behind Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2, so Valve briefly held the top three spots on its own platform. WARDOGS has since passed it. The climb lines up with the “The City Never Sleeps” update and the addition of the Rat King. The game is still not openly available.

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve has the highest Steam peak in the series, according to SteamDB. The tracker shows an all-time peak of 48,743 players, hit 14 hours ago. 42,612 were still in-game on the same chart. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown peaked at 13,758 at its February 2019 launch, on that same tracker. The full release is out on Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. The count is a Steam peak, not total sales.

Final Fantasy Resonance has reached 27,933 concurrent players on Steam, making it the #3# biggest single-player Final Fantasy launch on Steam, according to SteamDB. Biggest FF games on Steam: -Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: 40,564 peak -Final Fantasy XV: 29,498 -Final Fantasy XVI: 27,508 -Final Fantasy Resonance: 27,933 Looks like turn-based combat is back

Gears of War: E-Day early scores: 10 - DayOne 9.5 - TechRaptor 9.5 - But Why Tho 9.5 - MondoXbox 9 - IGN 9 - CGM 9 - Voxel 9 - Nexus Hub 9 - Screen Rant 9 - Console Creatures 8.5 - XGN 8.5 - Areajugones 8 - VGC 8 - Slant 8 - GAMINGbible 8 - SteamDeckHQ 6 - The Guardian Metacritic is at 89. OpenCritic is at 87. The Guardian is the only real outlier.

After years, Ubisoft is finally allowing Steam gamers remove its slop launcher “ubisoft connect” after installing games SteamDB now shows Ubisoft Connect being delivered as a separate Steam depot, with recent updates affecting a large number of Ubisoft titles. This is the kind of thing we have been asking for for years, why we were forced to use that slop when we buy game on Steam Next should be Rockstar