Summary
Lego Horizon Adventuresis only six months old. You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s been around a lot longer than that for several reasons. The game was seemingly forgotten about pretty quickly after launch, not just byPlayStation, but also those playing as its player count onSteambottomed out a while ago and has failed to recover.
Eight people are playing Lego Horizon Adventureson Steam right now,according to SteamDB. Not 800, not even 80, just eight. Its 24-hour peak isn’t much better either, with it maxing out at a measly 14. This isn’t a new thing for the still relatively new game either. It’s been a month since more than 20 people were playing the latestLegogame at one time on Steam, and you need to go back to January 12, less than two months after the game launched, to find a day when its concurrent player count broke 50.
There are some ways that you can attempt to defend these numbers. For starters,PCplayers aren’t the target audience for this game. Regardless of how many people are playing it six months later, Lego Horizon will go down as the game that bridged the gap between PlayStation andNintendo. A PlayStation Studios game that launched onSwitch, and there are likely more people playing it on Switch andPS5than there are on Steam. You’d hope so anyway.
Lego Horizon’s Steam Numbers Are Worse Than You Think
A Lot Lower Than The Number You Have In Your Head
It’s also a single-player game, so its numbers were always going to dwindle over time. That’s not much of a defense in this case, though. Lego Horizon’s Steam numbers were never there in the first place.Its all-time peak was 602 playerson the day it launched. For comparison,657 people are playingLego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which was released more than three years ago, right now.
Reaching further back in Lego game history doesn’t help Horizon either. Lego DC Super-Villains, a game that’s almost seven years old, has a 24-hour peak that’s roughly 15 times more than Horizons'. Even Lego’s The Incredibles game, which is even older, had 81 people playing it concurrently on Steam at one point in the last 24 hours.
As for what this all means for the future of Lego games, and PlayStation launching games on Nintendo hardware, remains unclear. Numbers aside, the reactions to Horizon Adventures were a lot colder than they have been to other recent, more traditional Lego games. Hopefully, it means a return to what Lego and its video game developers do best, and not those in charge looking at this and assuming Lego games aren’t worth making anymore.
