Underrated sci-fi shooter is back from the dead

techradar.com:

The 4V1 monster-hunting madness of Evolve has been given a new lease of life since 2K brought peer-to-peer and matchmaking back.

Evolve is the follow-up to Turtle Rock Studios Left 4 Dead. It saw the studio pivot from pitting players against zombie hordes, to tracking and hunting a player-controller monster instead. Were some people sore about it? Maybe. Were they desperate for Left 4 Dead 3? Yes, yes I was. But after just two years, dedicated server support was retired, and Turtle Rock went back to the zombie drawing board with Back 4 Blood.

Until recently, the only way to play the de-listed Steam game(opens in new tab) was peer-to-peer. But a few months ago, it stopped working. Players speculated it was due to a platform update and a bunch of Discord admins reached out to publisher 2K to get it sorted (you can read about the sage on Reddit(opens in new tab)). Long story short, Evolve Legacy's peer-to-peer servers were reinstated. But to our collective surprise, both peer-to-peer, and matchmaking for Evolve Stage 2 were also resuscitated. And player numbers on Steam have surged since then.         

Evolve Stage 2 (the free-to-play version of Evolve, as opposed to the Legacy edition) is now seeing a resurgence on Steam. Steam Charts(opens in new tab) shows a surge in players since July's update. The playerbase shot up from a piddly 31 in June, to 1,607 after 2K rolled out matchmaking and peer-to-peer server support.  

Over the weekend, Evolve amassed almost as many active players as Back 4 Blood, as spotted by TechRadar Gaming's guides editor, Patrick Dane, on Twitter. 

So, on Evolve news… uh, this is pretty interesting.