Helldivers 2 is indubitably one of many largest video games of 2024, and appropriately sufficient, it looks like it’s ending the yr on a excessive. At The Recreation Awards, developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios showcased a serious new replace for the co-op shooter titled Omens of Tyranny, including a brand new faction, enemy varieties, planets, and extra. Within the aftermath of the replace, the sport has loved a major resurgence in participant numbers.
Over latest weeks, Helldivers 2 had settled into a mean of 20-30k concurrent gamers on Steam, however as per SteamDB, for the reason that aforementioned replace went dwell, Helldivers 2’s Steam concurrent participant depend has climbed as excessive as 137,735 gamers. That, by the way, is the very best that the sport’s Steam concurrent participant depend has been in over half a yr, for the reason that PlayStation Community account linking fiasco in Might. It’s all-time peak, after all, is over 438,000 gamers, which it hit shortly following its launch in February.
Helldivers 2 is offered on PS5 and PC. In November, it was introduced that the sport had surpassed 15 million gamers throughout each platforms.