New World becomes Steam’s most played 2021 release

New World has been a very long time coming, and now that it’s lastly right here, it’s develop into Steam’s most performed online game launched in 2021. The title has soared up the charts, overtaking heavy-hitters like DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike: World Offensive, whereas additionally beating 2021 phenomenon, Valheim.

As of writing, New World’s all-time peak participant rely sits at 707,230, which places it because the 2021 online game with the very best participant rely. The earlier 2021 sport that surged in reputation was Valheim, a Viking-themed survival sport created by a small indie crew of 5. Valheim skyrocketed in reputation this yr, reaching an all-time peak of 502,387

The variety of gamers partaking with New World can seemingly be attributed to not solely the push by Amazon but additionally a kind of “excellent storm” of circumstances. New World has launched at a time the place there’s a hole within the big, triple-A releases; World of Warcraft has seen a drop in sub count since Shadowlands launched, and New World affords an affordable entry charge with no month-to-month subscription. For gamers in search of one thing to sink their time into, New World has arrived on the excellent second.

Whereas the Steam stats are spectacular, the sport has additionally drawn in additional than 800,000 viewers on Twitch. Little question these are each viewers and gamers alike, as gamers have been struggling to truly get into the sport. A have a look at the game’s server status site reveals that greater than 400,000 gamers in Europe have been making an attempt to entry the sport earlier as we speak. As of writing, some 150,000 gamers on the east coast of the US are sitting in queues making an attempt to get in.

All of that is to say that New World is proving to be a preferred title on launch day. Do you’ve got plans to leap into Amazon Video games’ first main launch or are you already in there, bringing some order to the New World?