Surging Space Marine 2 Early Access Numbers Portend a Golden Future | Push Square

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 doesn't even officially launch until 9th September on PS5, but judging by the very healthy number of players who shelled out extra for Early Access, Saber Interactive has a bonafide hit on its hands.Through the ever-illuminating use of SteamDB, we can see Space Marine 2 quickly racked up an impressive 134,302 concurrent players on PC alone, and that was day one, mid-week.

These devoted servants of the God-Emperor dutifully handed over either the $89.99 asking price for the game's Gold Edition or the $99.99 demanded by the Ultra Edition, which, in addition to other goodies, grants four days of Early Access. While this isn't our favourite new industry trend, it's clearly here to stay.

Admittedly anecdotal, but this humble servitor has been playing a bunch of PvP, putting the fear of the Imperium into more than a few unfortunate heretics. Overwhelmingly, the players we've encountered were on PS5, so we'd be willing to bet that a similar (if not greater) horde has assembled on console.

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Did you treat yourself to a cheeky bit of Space Marine 2 Early Access? What do you think so far? Hold fast in the face of overwhelming odds in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

Im not even a Warhammer fan and I want to play this

I will never pay extra to play early. It's idiotic to play something this day in age early where most games don't even function properly on release that they require a huge day 1 patch. Star Wars Outlaws being a pure example of this.

Just finished downloading it, got the Ultra edition so i shell be playing