Resident Evil 4 Remake Smashes Steam Record
The Resident Evil 4 remake marked a new series high as its most successful Steam launch ever, smashing the previous record by a massive margin. This notable achievement indicates that the game's commercial performance may match its critical response, which has been overwhelmingly positive, with reviewers praising the Resident Evil 4 remake as a phenomenal experience that successfully modernizes Capcom's classic with minimal compromises.
The series' simultaneous Steam player record has now been broken three times in the last four years, starting with the Resident Evil 2 remake which peaked at over 74,000 players in 2019. Resident Evil Village continued pushing the PC popularity envelope by boasting more than 106,000 concurrent Steam players two years later, with the Resident Evil 4 remake now managing to one-up that achievement.
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According to SteamDB data, Capcom's latest game peaked at 140,240 simultaneous Steam players around 8am PST on March 24. The Resident Evil 4 remake has been out for less than 24 hours by the time it managed this feat. While most AAA games tend to peak in this metric on release day, seeing how the new Resident Evil game is still hovering around the 135,000 mark as of this writing, there might still be time for it to improve this record once fans in North and South America get off work. For context, all versions of the original game sold over 12 million copies as of late 2022, according to Capcom data, so the game already has a pretty large built-in audience of likely working fans who might yet add to its number of concurrent Steam players later today.
The Resident Evil 4 remake is currently among the top 10 most popular Steam games going by the
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