Since it’s only February, it might be too soon to say that the action-RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is going to be a game of the year contender. But this title’s popularity is already exploding. After launching on Steam last week with 150,000 players concurrently, the game hit an even larger peak over the weekend.
SteamDB has shared a chart of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s performance, and it rose from 176,000 players on February 5 to 190,000 on February 7. During the weekend, the game reached its current record of 256,206 concurrent players before settling back down to 188,000 players today. Regardless, the upwards trajectory of this title is impressive and it appears to still have room to grow. The game is also available on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, so the Steam numbers may only represent a small part of the overall picture.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has also been highly rated on GameSpot’s sister site, Metacritic, with an aggregate score of 88. GameSpot’s review of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 gave it a 9/10.
Senior designer Ondřej Bittner recently shared the influence that The Elder Scrolls games have had on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, particularly The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The game also sold 1 million copies in a single day. It’s an intricately created world, and even the smallest details seem to matter, including NPCs’ aversion to your character if you don’t bother to bathe. Warhorse Studios has also laid out its roadmap for Kingdom Come 2’s post-release content, which means players may be living in this world for some time to come.