Hope the demise of the Western AAA game industry comes soon.
Looking at SteamDB, only 4 games released in the last year are in the top 25 of 24-hr player count. Those are:
Helldivers 2. #6, highest player count in the last 24 hrs is 242k
Palworld. #15, 100k
Baldur's Gate 3, #17, 87k
Football Manager 2024, #21, 67k
Taking IGN's list of biggest games of 2023 (archive here - https://archive.is/yg2fP), and listing the ones on Steam:
Forspoken: 24 hr peak of 57
Dead Space: 570
Hogwarts Legacy: 8.5k
Wild Hearts: 127
Atomic Heart: 627
Company of Heroes 3: 3k
Sons of the Forest: 12k
Kerbal Space Program 2: 601
Octopath Traveler 2: 592
Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: 704
RE4 Remake: 6k
System Shock remake: 130
Minecraft Legends: 22
Jedi Survivor: 2k
Redfall: 58
Suicide Squad: 475
Street Fighter 6: 23k
Diablo 4: 4.5k
Starfield: 6k
The Expanse: 34
The Day Before: shut down now
Armored Core 6: 2k
Forza Motorsport: 6k
Lies of P: 2.5k
Payday 3: 357
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 878
Granted, those numbers could change drastically when you factor in other platforms, but of those 26 games "most promising" games, 14 don't even have 1k concurrent players a year (or less) after release, and only 2 have above 10k. Sure sounds like you all are on the right track.
Hope the demise of the Western AAA game industry comes soon.
Looking at SteamDB, only 4 games released in the last year are in the top 25 of 24-hr player count. Those are:
Helldivers 2. #6, highest player count in the last 24 hrs is 242k Palworld. #15, 100k Baldur's Gate 3, #17, 87k Football Manager 2024, #21, 67k
Taking IGN's list of biggest games of 2023 (archive here - https://archive.is/yg2fP), and listing the ones on Steam:
Forspoken: 24 hr peak of 57
Dead Space: 570
Hogwarts Legacy: 8.5k
Wild Hearts: 127
Atomic Heart: 627
Company of Heroes 3: 3k
Sons of the Forest: 12k
Kerbal Space Program 2: 601
Octopath Traveler 2: 592
Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: 704
RE4 Remake: 6k
System Shock remake: 130
Minecraft Legends: 22
Jedi Survivor: 2k
Redfall: 58
Suicide Squad: 475
Street Fighter 6: 23k
Diablo 4: 4.5k
Starfield: 6k
The Expanse: 34
The Day Before: shut down now
Armored Core 6: 2k
Forza Motorsport: 6k
Lies of P: 2.5k
Payday 3: 357
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 878
Granted, those numbers could change drastically when you factor in other platforms, but of those 26 games "most promising" games, 14 don't even have 1k concurrent players a year (or less) after release, and only 2 have above 10k. Sure sounds like you all are on the right track.