FBC: Firebreak, the multiplayerControlspin-off, has been a disaster for Remedy Entertainment.Despite hitting over one million players in its first month, boosted by Xbox Game Pass and PS Plus, it’s struggling to keep most of them.
As of writing, it only hasa 24-hour peak of 85 playerson Steam, dropping into the double digits after just three weeks. For comparison, it took PlayStation’s infamous hero shooterConcordone week and five days to reach sub-100 numbers—it’s hardly a flattering comparison, but already players on the Steam Forums aredeclaring FBC a “Concord competitor”.
FBC isn’t doingtoobadly in the review department, with an average ‘Mixed’ score on Steam.
With its numbers tanking, it’s hardly surprising that FBC is now ranked 2,097 on the Steam top-sellers list, but whatissurprising is that the unreleased spiritual successor toGarry’s Mod, S&Box, has more players right now. Through the developer preview alone, the Source 2 “game engine and platform” has an all-time peak of 992 players, and a 24-hour peak of 141, maintaining a triple-digit figure when even FBC is struggling to.
FBC Is Now Barely In Steam’s Top 3,500 Games
We reported not long ago thatFBC had fallen out of Steam’s top 1,800 games, but things have only worsened in the weeks since. After plummeting further, it’s now ranked 3,462 in the charts, placing it behind the likes of Nunholy, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes, and a game called ‘Loot Box’ with ‘Mostly Negative’ reviews where you click a loot box that doesn’t even open.
Granted, Remedy is aware of how FBC is performing, admitting in its celebratory tweet of one million players that “there is still a lot of work” to do. But it’s unclear just how many of those one million players are still active today, as the Steam Forums paint a pretty bleak picture.
Players have posted threads asking if solo is viable, writing that they can’t find a game even with cross-platform enabled, while others have simply declared that FBC is “officially dead”. Some had hoped to see a “decent discount” in the Summer Sale as a last-ditch effort to boost the player count, but that didn’t happen. It’ll take some work to claw back its dwindling community, especially when the few stragglers left are unable to reliably find a game.
