Helldivers 2 skyrockets to the highest of Steam because the Illuminate arrives

Whereas it had an explosive launch earlier this yr and took the gaming trade by storm with a whole bunch of hundreds of gamers for a lot of months, the recognition of Helldivers 2 finally tapered off as is commonly the case with new video games (although make no mistake, it is at all times maintained a wholesome, constant participant base). Because of the surprise release of the co-op shooter’s long-awaited Illuminate faction at The Game Awards, although, it is skyrocketed again into the limelight — and there are numbers to again that up.

In response to data from SteamDB, Helldivers 2 soared from its typical night common of ~20,000 concurrent gamers as much as a peak of 137,735 on Thursday evening, with 129,905 presently combating on the Galactic Warfare’s entrance strains as I write this. On high of that, it is as soon as once more taken the first-place place on Steam’s official Top Sellers chart, even managing to surpass present juggernauts like Marvel Rivals and Path of Exile 2.

Maybe what’s most spectacular, although, is that over a million of Liberty’s best troopers have deployed throughout PC and PS5 because the Illuminate started their shock invasion of Calypso. That information got here from a recent social media post from Arrowhead Sport Studios’ CCO Johan Pilestedt: “Tremendous stoked to see that greater than one million Helldivers have made planetfall within the final 24 hours!”

Clearly, the arrival of the Illuminate and their hordes of zombified squid-like troopers has motivated Helldivers to return to the sport en masse, spurred on by a monumental Main Order to repel the faction’s invasion of Calypso in two days’ time. It is also pushed many newcomers to select up the sport and provides it a shot, with a cool 20% off low cost on Steam making it extra reasonably priced to purchase than regular.