Smilegate's newly launched MMO, Lost Ark – published by Amazon Games – has only been out for a day, but it's already one of the biggest games to ever hit Steam.
All day long the concurrent user record - that is, the tally of the number of players all online and playing at the same time - has been growing and growing on SteamDB, and - at the time of writing - it currently sits at an incredible peak of 1,321,363 players (and it's changed three times since I started writing this article!).
Not only does that make it the most played game on the platform right now - CS:GO is currently second with 1.3 million concurrent players, and Dota 2 is third with 1.2 – but it now boasts the second-highest concurrent peak ever, too, topping games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Amazon's own New World, which currently has a peak of 913K.
Only PUGB is keeping Lost Ark from the top spot… although with a staggering record of 3.2 million concurrent players, PUBG Corp. probably doesn't have much to worry about just yet.
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