God of Battle Ragnarok's Steam launch is surprisingly poor in comparison with different Sony first-party exclusives on PC

The PC model of God of Battle Ragnarok has formally arrived on PC. The sport launched Thursday, September 19 on Steam, in addition to the Epic Video games Retailer. Ragnarok is the newest Sony first-party PlayStation title to make it to PC, but it surely doesn’t seem like the viewers confirmed up for this one.

The sport’s Steam numbers have been rising since Thursday, however its peak concurrent on Valve’s platform has plateaued with out reaching the heights achieved by the unique God of Battle.

As of the latest rely, God of Battle Ragnarok has achieved a peak concurrent of 35,615 gamers (through SteamDB), which isn’t a small determine by most accounts, however undoubtedly makes it sit in the direction of the decrease finish of Sony’s PC catalogue.

This peak concurrent is increased than final week’s different main launch, Ultimate Fantasy 16, but it surely’s effectively under the unique God of Battle’s 73,529. The truth is, that sport held the report for the very best peak concurrent amongst Sony’s single-player video games proper up till Ghost of Tsushima got here and snatched that title with its 77,154 peak concurrent. Tsushima was the primary sport to be launched after Sony rolled out its misguided sport blocking because of requiring a PlayStation Community account, which meant that the sport was unavailable in round 180 international locations.

That requirement hasn’t modified a lot, so it’s attainable {that a} chunk of God of Battle’s viewers merely wasn’t in a position to purchase Ragnarok because of it being unavailable the place they stay. Regardless, Ragnarok’s numbers are stunning, particularly given how a lot acclaim the PlayStation model obtained, and it being the conclusion of the story.

Steam opinions aren’t completely glowing, both, and most complain in regards to the PSN account requirement, whereas others lament the inconsistent efficiency deeper into the sport in comparison with its opening hours. It’s attainable the numbers are going to get one other bump over the course of the week, or when Sony rolls again the PSN requirement (or lessens it).