Stellar Bladeis finally available onPC, and it looks like a lot of you have felt every second of the year and a bit long wait since it launched exclusively onPS5. The Shift Up game hasn’t even been available onSteamfor 24 hours, and it has already outperformed every singlePlayStationPC port in the most important demographic.
At 1 am EST, seven hours after the port launched,99,980 players were playing Stellar Blade on Steam at the same time,according to SteamDB. That number has been sustained for four hours and counting as, at the time of typing this, there are currently more than 98,000 of you still playing. The game will almost certainly sail past 100,000 concurrent players later this week and over the weekend, but even without that milestone, it is already sitting atop the PlayStation PC port concurrent player count mountain.
With just shy of 100,000 players, Stellar Blade has taken just seven hours to surpass every other PlayStation port’s peak player count.Ghost of Tsushimawas the previous record holder, topping out at 77,000 players.God of Waralso did pretty well, maxing out at 73,000, and right behind it wasMarvel’s Spider-Manwith 66,000 players.
Stellar Blade still has a way to go to surpass the lofty numbersHelldivers 2achieved at launch, but that released on PS5 and PC at the same time, so it’s not a port.
Finally, A PlayStation PC Port That People Actually Seem To Like
Some Of You Like It For The Wrong Reasons, But PlayStation Will Take The Win
Games likeThe Last of Us, its remastered sequel,Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and both of the Horizon games don’t even come close to hitting the highs that Stellar Blade is hitting as you read this, all of them failing to bring in 50,000 players at once, let alone 100,000. It looks like everyone who is playing Stellar Blade on PC right now is enjoying it too, as the port currently has an Overwhelmingly Positive review rating, something else that quite a few PlayStation ports have failed to achieve, many of them arriving in a less-than-stellar state, pardon the pun.
While most of Stellar Blade’s Steam reviews are applauding Shift Up for how smooth the game runs and how good it looks on PC, there are a few sprinkled in there from players who only seem to like the game because of how much they like Eve, if you get what I mean. If you don’t get what I mean, go read a few of the reviews; you won’t have to scroll for long.
Speaking of, now that the full version of Stellar Blade is on PC, it’s only a matter of time before the mods follow it. The port got a demo before its full launch, and that wasinundated with raunchy mods within 72 hours of its release.
