Cyberpunk Hits Its Highest Player Count Since Phantom Liberty Thanks To Edgerunners

Cyberpunk Hits Its Highest Player Count Since Phantom Liberty Thanks To Edgerunners

From TheGamer (Written by Josh Coulson) on | OpenCritic

There aren’t many single-player games that can boast the player counts that Cyberpunk 2077 pulls in. As we approach the sixth anniversary of its release, not only are tens of thousands still frequenting Night City every day, but its player count on Steam just hit its highest peak since 2023.

At one point on Sunday, there were more than 187,000 of you playing Cyberpunk at the same time, and that’s just on Steam. CD Projekt’s latest game is also available on PlayStation, Xbox, and now Switch 2, so the total across all platforms would have comfortably surpassed 200,000.

Steam is the only platform for which we have solid player count numbers thanks to SteamDB. According to those numbers, the peak Cyberpunk hit on Sunday is the highest it has achieved since October 2023. That last spike came right after its 2.0 update and the launch of its massive expansion, Phantom Liberty.

The game didn’t quite break 200,000 concurrent players on Steam as it did back then, but hitting a three-year high without DLC to point to as the reason behind it is mighty impressive. 187,000 of you flocking back to Cyberpunk over the weekend didn’t happen for no reason...

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