Stellar Blade's PC port has barely been out a day, and it's already creating waves. We recently reported that the game has outperformed every other PlayStation PC port, with 99,980 players playing concurrently on Steam. It has beaten the likes of Ghost of Tsushima and God of War. While Shuhei Yoshida claims the success is because of its combat, we have another theory.
Shift Up's Stellar Blade is landing on PC next month, and that means mods are soon to follow.
Let's say that many players downloaded it for the combat, but heading over to Nexus Mods might make you think otherwise. We all knew it was going to happen, but nobody could have predicted the sheer number of raunchy mods that have been made for the game, with the overall top one receiving 64.2K downloads at the time of writing.
As pointed out by GamesRadar+, the sheer number of mods and downloads in simply a day has far exceeded those of Nier Automata, which has its own thirsty fan base and mod community. It's true that Stellar Blade had a Steam demo, giving the modders some more time to work on their art, but the number skyrocketed after...