I gathered this data roughly from the top RPGs on Steam, so I may be missing some games. In most cases, concurrent players peaked at launch week, mainly on the weekend.
I doubt any RPG other than Bethesda game would be able to top Fallout 4 for unforseeable future. And Dark Souls is gaining more and more popularity on PC each day. Kingdom Come topping The Witcher 3 is quite an achievement it's one of the dearest games for PC gamers. Though we should also consider that The Witcher 3 is almost 3 year-old by now and Steam audience was undoubtedly smaller compared to today. Anyway, this seems bode well with how the games sell in the long run, as you can see below:
Another interesting thing is that JRPGs, outside of Souls games, aren't too popular on Steam. Obviously, it's mainly due to late and bad ports. The most successful JRPG I could find is Nier Automata with 22k peak concurrent users and 700k sales so far. Final Fantasy games barely reach 10k peak at launch. Also, I put AC Origins in there simply because of the tag on the store page. Please give the 'is it a RPG?' argument a rest.
As said above, I may be missing some games, so if you find one please post it here.
- Fallout 4 - 471k
- Skyrim - 287k
- Dark Souls III - 129k
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 95k
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 - 93k
- The Witcher 3 - 92k
- Dark Souls II - 79k
- Skyrim EE - 69k
- AC Origins - 41k
- Pillars of Eternity - 41k
I doubt any RPG other than Bethesda game would be able to top Fallout 4 for unforseeable future. And Dark Souls is gaining more and more popularity on PC each day. Kingdom Come topping The Witcher 3 is quite an achievement it's one of the dearest games for PC gamers. Though we should also consider that The Witcher 3 is almost 3 year-old by now and Steam audience was undoubtedly smaller compared to today. Anyway, this seems bode well with how the games sell in the long run, as you can see below:
- Fallout 4 - 5,1m
- Skyrim - 11,1m
- Dark Souls III - 2,5m
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 375k (3 days delay)
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 - 1,1m
- The Witcher 3 - 4,7m
- Dark Souls II - 1,5m
- Skyrim Enhanced Edition - 6,2m
- Assassin's Creed Origins - 648k
- Pillars of Eternity - 1,2m
Another interesting thing is that JRPGs, outside of Souls games, aren't too popular on Steam. Obviously, it's mainly due to late and bad ports. The most successful JRPG I could find is Nier Automata with 22k peak concurrent users and 700k sales so far. Final Fantasy games barely reach 10k peak at launch. Also, I put AC Origins in there simply because of the tag on the store page. Please give the 'is it a RPG?' argument a rest.
As said above, I may be missing some games, so if you find one please post it here.
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