It can be hard to make a splash on Steam these days, with most of the top spots taken by long-running live service games or blockbuster releases like Resident Evil Requiem. It helps a lot to be free, though, especially if you pair that with a genuinely ambitious experience. This week, that formula seems to have worked out perfectly for a new open-world RPG.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, released on Steam on March 16, has quickly shot to the top of SteamDB's trending chart. With a peak of over 65,000 concurrent players, the new RPG is attracting a massive audience. As a tie-in to the popular Seven Deadly Sins manga and anime franchise, it appears to be picking up fans of the franchise and the RPG genre alike.
If you've played games like Genshin Impact, you'll have a good idea of what to expect from The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin. In typical free-to-play anime game fashion, you can invest currencies earned through either dedicated gameplay or real-world purchases to buy characters in a gacha roulette system. In the field, action combat plays out in real-time, with different characters bringing different strengths and abilities to the table....
