Square Enix’s latest RPG falls below 10 players on Steam

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Babylon’s Fall, the latest co-op action RPG from Square Enix and Platinum Games, struggled to attract an audience when it launched last March, and has fallen below 10 concurrent players on PC for the first time 

As game-tracking site SteamCharts shows, only eight players booted up Babylon’s Fall on Steam during one point on April 13, marking a new low for the ailing game. As of press time, a paltry 93 people were playing, and it’s attracted an average concurrent player count of only 149 across the last 30 days.

Players have been drifting from the game since it launched at the beginning of March. It failed to draw an audience, peaking at only 1,188 players the day after release. Critics were not kind, either, awarding it low review scores. On Metacritic, it’s currently listed as the second-worst release of the year so far and the worst-reviewed PS5 game.

Its release date did it no favors, either. Coming out shortly after Horizon Forbidden West and less than a week after Elden Ring, it quickly found itself in the shadow of other major triple-A releases.

However, Square Enix has since explicitly addressed the future of the game, insisting its longevity is not in danger.

“There are no plans to reduce the scale of development on Babylon’s Fall,” the game’s official Twitter account said in a statement last month.

“Content up to the end of Season 2 is now practically complete and we have started work on Season 3 and beyond,” it continued.

“We will continue to provide new content for the game and make improvements based on player feedback, striving to keep existing players playing and to attract newcomers.”

The publisher has also previously released a survey asking fans how Babylon’s Fall could be improved. It paid particular attention