Mina the Hollower debuted to glowing reviews this week, and now Yacht Club's long-awaited follow-up to Shovel Knight is here for the rest of us to play. It's doing big numbers on Steam right away, too, as Mina has already breezed past Shovel Knight's record player count.
Mina released at midnight EST today and it seems a lot of you waited up so that you could be among the first to play it. The new indie hit 8,017 players as soon as it was released according to SteamDB. That might not sound like much in the grand scheme of things, but it's already a far higher peak than Shovel Knight managed during its 12 years on the platform.
Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero both hit their highest player counts since they launched.
Despite being well-loved, Shovel Knight topped out at just 2,875 players on Steam. Yacht Club was made to wait for that high, too, as the game had been around for five years before hitting what would ultimately be its highest player count. It was a game that grew in popularity thanks to word of mouth, resulting in that record high CCU coming when Yacht Club released...
