Summary
Baldur’s Gate 3has reached a new milestone on Steam, once again reaching new heights with its concurrent player total for the second weekend in a row. After fully launching on August 3,Baldur’s Gate 3surprised everyone by breaking into Steam’s top 10 games based on their highest concurrent player totals. A week later andBaldur’s Gate 3has built on its staggering success, a rarity on Steam since most games peak immediately after launch.
After its launch on August 3, which was a Thursday,Baldur’s Gate 3saw daily increases in its concurrent player totals through Sunday, August 6. The peak it reached that day was 814,666, which launchedBaldur’s Gate 3into Steam’s top 10. It ranked 9th overall, aboveGoose Goose Duckbutbelow 2023’sHogwarts Legacy.
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NowBaldur’s Gate 3has had yet another impressive showing this past weekend. On Sunday, August 13,Baldur’s Gate 3’s concurrently player total peaked at 875,343. That’s an increase of over 60,000 additional concurrent players or over 7%. Amostly single-player RPG likeBaldur’s Gate 3maintaining such impressive concurrent player numbers but also increasing them is a rare and impressive feat.
Unfortunately, the increase in concurrent players was not enough to moveBaldur’s Gate 3higher on Steam’s list of the top 10 games. The new watermark forBaldur’s Gate 3falls just short ofHogwarts Legacy’s 879,308 concurrent player peak withNew Worldjust beyond at 913,634.Baldur’s Gate 3will likely remain in the 9th position, barring an unexpected and unprecedented third week of growth.
There were hopes thatBaldur’s Gate 3would reach an even greater number within the games community. Some even tried to organize an effort to all play at the same time, to try andbring the concurrent player total forBaldur’s Gate 3up to a million. While the community didn’t reach that number, it should be very happy with whatBaldur’s Gate 3did manage.
Larian Studios remains happy withBaldur’s Gate 3’s success. The development team wasn’t sure ifBaldur’s Gate 3had peaked in early access in not, saying that its incredible popularity “was not in the books at all.” CEO Swen Vinke says that developers at Larian are “very happy” and that there are a lot of “smiling faces.” Of course, Larian remains hard at work doing post-launch polish onBaldur’s Gate 3. There’s still the PlayStation 5 launch on September 6 to work toward, and Xbox after that.
Baldur’s Gate 3is available now on PC with a PS5 version dropping September 6. An Xbox version of the game is also in development.
