The newly-released demo for a little third-person mech shooter called Mecha Break is hitting some serious Steam player numbers, with hundreds of thousands of players flocking to check out the demo since it launched yesterday.
According to SteamDB's numbers, the Mecha Break demo reached an all-time peak of 317,522 players yesterday. To put things into perspective, that's higher than the all-time Steam player counts of games like Destiny 2, Halo Infinite, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and we know how successful the latter is.
That achievement seems even more impressive when we consider that we're comparing a demo to numbers achieved by fully-released games. Sure, these aren't quite Monster Hunter Wilds numbers, but that's a franchise with some name recognition.
Although Mecha Break is getting some big player numbers for its demo, feedback from those players hasn't been entirely positive. In fact, the demo (which has its own review numbers thanks to changes made by Valve in July) has a Mostly Negative rating across almost 4,800 reviews at time of writing.
Those who've left negative reviews point to the game's kernel-level anti-cheat, which is never a popular inclusion, as well as its monetization model and...
