Release Divinity: Original Sin 2's Breaks CRPG Records On Steam With Over 75,000 Concurrent Players

It seems that records are being broken all over the world of PC gaming as of late, and no industry analyst could have predicted who’d be breaking them.

Today’s trailblazers are Larian Studios - the independent and crowdfunded Belgian crew - who have every reason to celebrate this weekend as Divinity: Original Sin 2 saw one of the strongest launches of any classic RPG on Steam.



While sales figures from SteamSpy are always to be taken with a liberal pinch of seasoning, it’s safe enough to say that approximately 300,000 people own the game on Steam, although many (43k, give or take) are Kickstarter backers.

What is a more relevant metric of launch success is concurrent players, and the game clocked in at just over 75,000 players last night. While dwarfed by competitive juggernauts such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, that still placed it as the 4th most active game on Steam at the time.

To put that figure into further perspective, the original Divinity: Original Sin - a respectable success - saw just under 22k players peak at launch, and even Obsidian’s old-school hit Pillars of Eternity saw under 42k at its best.

In short, Original Sin 2 has seen one of the most successful launches of any old-school RPG on Steam. If not the top record holder, then it’s definitely in the top three. A fully deserved position.

Let’s also not forget that Steam isn’t the entire picture. Original Sin 2 also saw a DRM-free release via GOG, which surely bumps up the figures by another few thousand.

While I’m not sure of the exact metrics GOG uses the fill its Popular Games ranking on the store front page, Original Sin 2’s multiple editions take up 4 of the top 10 slots.

It’s a heartening turn of events, given Larian’s history of financial struggles and publisher mismanagement. Now fully independent, they’ve found their groove, discovered their true market and are proudly showing the rest of the industry how it’s done.

It doesn’t hurt that Original Sin 2 is a lovely game that our writers can’t stop gushing about. Check out our review-in-progress here, with the final cut due on Tuesday.


Source: PCgamesN.com