2024 is sort of over, however we’re nonetheless getting main releases, and it appears they’re all doing spectacular properly. Yesterday, Marvel Rivals attracted gamers in droves on the primary day of its launch, and right this moment, we’re seeing the same sample for the long-awaited Path of Exile 2, Grinding Gear Video games’ motion RPG, which launched in early entry right this moment.

As per SteamDB, on the time of writing, Path of Exile 2 has seen a peak of 459,263 gamers on Steam on day one in every of its launch. That’s immediately greater than twice as excessive because the all-time peak of the unique Path of Exile, which stands at 229,337 concurrent gamers.

As Grinding Gear Video games warned forward of the sport’s launch, Path of Exile 2 can also be presently going through extreme server overcrowding, with massive lots of gamers having to attend in lengthy queues to have the ability to get within the recreation. The studio will clearly be working to ease these points, although it needs to be attention-grabbing to see how the sport’s participant engagement numbers fare over the approaching days. With the weekend developing, it wouldn’t be stunning to see it proceed to climb increased.

Path of Exile 2 is presently accessible in early entry for PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC. Learn our evaluation of its early entry launch via right here.