You can talk about Capcom’s success with the Resident Evil 2 remake and Devil May Cry 5, but Activision and From Software’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (which was released this past Friday) is having some pretty big success of its own. In fact, according to Steam Charts, the Souls-like game has had a bigger launch than DMC 5.
According to the site, Sekiro currently sits at 125,315 concurrent active players. That also makes it the the fourth most-played game on Steam right now, and the best launch of any other Steam release in 2019 so far. Those numbers beat out Resident Evil 2‘s 74,227 players at launch, and Devil May Cry 5‘s 88,894 players.
Not bad for a game that constantly has you threatening to pull your hair out in frustration. Look for Neil’s review of the game very soon.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is also available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.