Prior to its launch, there was a lot of hype surrounding Mecha Break. The free-to-play mech-based arena shooter registered over 317,000 concurrent players during its demo period, and despite numerous complaints, the signs looked promising for the game's full launch, which took place on July 2.
Won't someone help her pack all that junk into her mecha trunk?
Immediately, however, the game failed to reach the demo's lofty heights, peaking at 132,816 players on launch day, and things only went downhill from there. It clocked up 5,000 negative reviews in its first week, and now, it looks like it's losing players faster than almost every other major live-service title released in the last couple of years, with over 65 percent of players abandoning their mechs for scrap.
According to SteamDB, in just two weeks, Mecha Break has lost 66 percent of its average player count on Steam. On July 2, the game had an average of 51,552 players. The day after, it averaged 65,291 players. Yesterday, it averaged just 24,431 players, a 65 percent drop in less than two weeks.
The game's peak concurrent player count paints an even more dire situation, dropping from 132,816 at...
