Since the first release of the Elden Ring game, its popularity immediately shot up, and even the number of active players had crossed a million at the end of last week.
Keep in mind, this million active players are only counted from players on PC, specifically from Steam. Even today, Elden Ring is the 6th most played game on Steam.
When it was first released, this action RPG genre game had penetrated 800 thousand active players, and then increased to 950 thousand. Compared to Dark Souls III or Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Elden Ring has 7 times more active players at its peak.
Elden Ring's critical score on OpenCritic is also fairly good, which is 96. While positive reviews on Steam for this game reach 84%. But there are also those who complain about the performance of this game when played on a PC.
Not only that, the number of active Elden Ring players has beaten other popular game titles such as New World, Valheim, Fallout 4, Terraria, and GTA V. But of course there are still five other games with more active players, as quoted by Techspot. , Tuesday (8/3/2022).
The games are:
PUBG: Battlegrounds - 3,257,248
Lost Ark - 1,325,305
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - 1,308,963
Dota 2 - 1,295,114
Cyberpunk 2077 - 1,054,388
In total, Elden Ring has now sold more than 10 million copies on PC since its first release. If you add up the number of sales on PlayStation and Xbox, the number may have crossed 20 million copies.
With sales like that, Elden Ring is now the biggest selling game in the UK besides FIFA and Call of Duty since Red Dead Redemption 2 was released.
In the first week, sales were greater than Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla, which were already considered high-income games in 2020.