New World is beating Counter-Strike 2 on Steam
New World is back, at least for now. The once-fallen MMO is again climbing the Steam charts, as Amazon’s first expansion, New World: Rise of the Angry Earth, releases on Steam. With doubled concurrent player count numbers and both the base game and its DLC climbing up the Steam charts, even pushing ahead of Valve’s own Counter-Strike 2 in some regions, it’s a promising early jolt to life.
An astonishing launch in September 2021 saw New World take the reins from some of the best MMORPGs, scoring over 900,000 peak concurrent players on Steam. However, while our New World review found a lot to love in the crafting and combat, the long-term quest progression felt rather dull and frustrating, and it seems players agreed. A rapid drop-off saw it fall below 100,000 in January 2022 and remain under that milestone since, with a brief exception in October 2022 thanks to a notable update.
The arrival of the cataclysmic New World Rise of the Angry Earth expansion has not completely changed its fortunes yet, but it is already making waves. At the time of writing, New World sits at number two on Valve’s own global Steam top selling games list, up an astonishing 74 positions from its previous place, while New World Rise of the Angry Earth is just under it in the third-place spot.
The only thing to top it is juggernaut Counter-Strike 2 – yet in some territories including the United Kingdom the base New World game has actually pushed CS2 off the top spot and claimed it for itself. Perhaps the British contingent are particularly excited about the long-awaited addition of mounts and the new Riding Trade Skill that accompanies them.
That’s quite a staggering thought – it suggests that not only are people investing in the new expansion,
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