Super Meat Boy 3D had a lot to prove after Super Meat Boy Forever, a middling autorunner that was even partly to blame for Edmund McMillen leaving the team. Thankfully, Super Meat Boy 3D has proven itself to be a far stronger outing (my colleague George Foster awarded it four stars in his review for TheGamer), but unfortunately, it still hasn't been enough to pull the series out from the Dark World.
At launch, Super Meat Boy 3D hit a peak concurrent player count of just 621 (via SteamDB), only 12 percent of the original Super Meat Boy's all-time concurrent peak player count of 5,153. In fact, 15 years later, more people are playing the original game right now, as Super Meat Boy currently holds a 24-hour peak of 531 players, while Super Meat Boy 3D has dropped to a peak concurrent player count of 432.
In the overall Steam charts, Super Meat Boy 3D is the 1,633rd most-played game in the last 24 hours, ranking behind Kingdom Hearts 3, Dead Island, Outlast 2, and Spelunky 2.
Of course, peak concurrent player counts are not a wholly accurate representation of a...
