Three Old Battlefield Games Are All Outperforming Battlefield 2042 on Steam

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Calling the launch of Battlefield 2042 rough would be an understatement, and months later, its player count has plummeted to extremely low levels. For those needing evidence as to how little the game is being played on PC, some recent Steam data makes the struggles of Battlefield 2042 very clear.

With how Battlefield 2042 reviewed, and how much it was criticized by gamers upon its official release, it is not necessarily surprising that the game has struggled to retain the large player base it had early on. While Battlefield Portal was understandably praised, as the clever feature allowed players to mix and match content from some of the past entries to create unique modes, nearly everything else was torn apart by players. From the game’s visuals to its many bugs to its focus on specialists, the disappointment came from many different sources.

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IGN recently compiled info from SteamDB, and it revealed some startling numbers. For starters, less than 2,000 Steam users are playing Battlefield 2042 at the time of writing, which is shockingly low considering that the Steam player count peaked at over 100,000. However, this becomes even more surprising when comparing the game’s player count to three of the previous entries in the series. Currently,Battlefield 4, Battlefield 1, andBattlefield 5 all have higher active player counts than the 2023 release — and some of the gaps are quite large.

Battlefield 4, which dropped all the way back in 2013 and had its own troublesome launch, is sitting at over 2,100 players. Battlefield 1, a 2016 release that took players back to The Great War, currently boasts an impressive 7,500 player count. Finally, there is Battlefield 5, a divisive game that