After Phantom Liberty Launch, Cyberpunk 2077's Steam Player Count Leaves Starfield In The Dust

gamespot.com:

With the release of Phantom Liberty, thousands of players are flocking back to the game.

By Claire Lewis on

Cyberpunk 2077's new 2.0 Phantom Liberty update has been extremely well-received by players, who are returning to Night City in droves. The game's concurrent player count on Steam has reached numbers the game hasn't seen since its 2020 launch, but even more surprisingly, those numbers have surpassed that of Bethesda's massive new spacefaring RPG, Starfield.

According to Steam, there are currently 230,735 players exploring Night City, putting it in third place behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (991,070 players) and Dota 2 (604,998). Meanwhile, Bethesda's first new IP in a quarter of a century is lurking in ninth place with 95,690 players exploring the cosmos in Starfield--a number that places it below PUBG: Battlegrounds, Apex Legends, Baldur's Gate 3, Source SDK Base 2007 (used for playing Source Engine mods), and GTA 5. It's worth noting Steam is only one platform for the games on PC, and Starfield's Game Pass players aren't included in its Steam concurrents.

You need a javascript enabled browser to watch videos.

Want us to remember this setting for all your devices?

Sign up or Sign in now!

By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Now Playing: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty — 12 Things I Wish I Knew

Cyberpunk 2077 had a notoriously rocky launch back in 2020 (though the studio's execs seem to disagree with that assessment), but it appears that the development team at CD Projekt Red was truly committed to bringing players the experience they'd been been promised via the game's marketing. The new update is so expansive--and adds so many new features to the game--that the game's