The recent Cyberpunk 2077 resurgence has now seen the game register a higher concurrent player count on Steam than The Witcher 3’s all-time record.
As noticed by analyst @BenjiSales, the game has attracted 104,827 players concurrently, whereasThe Witcher 3’s all-time peak player count is 103,329.
Therecent spike in playersfollows the launch of the game’s1.6 patch, which added various new features and improvements, and coincides with a half-price discount onSteam.
Cyberpunk 2077 just passed the ALL TIME Steam Peak Concurrent Players for The Witcher 3Cyberpunk: 104,827The Witcher 3 (all time peak): 103,329Absolutely nuts. Nearly 2 years after launch Cyberpunk has more people playing it right now on Steam than The Witcher 3 has ever hadpic.twitter.com/88tarGZibs
TheCyberpunk 2077 anime, Edgerunners, also debuted onNetflixlast week and has been receivingvery favourable reviewsfrom critics and the general public.
The Witcher 3’s peak count was also in response to the game’s Netflix adaptation, however, Edgerunners appears to have influenced a higher number of players to pick up the game.
Cyberpunk 2077reached a peak concurrent player count of 1,054,388 when the game launched, but in recent months prior to the patch, the game was attracting on average around 20,000 to 30,000 players.
It’s worth noting that these numbers don’t include the console versions of the game, each of which received a current generation patch earlier in the year.
Responding to the game’s growing player count, Cyberpunk 2077 quest director Paweł Saskosaidthis week: “Thank you so much chooms for this second chance.”
CD Projektclaimed in April thatCyberpunk 2077 had sold over 18 million copies– up from 13 millionreported during the game’s launch month.
Cyberpunk 2077’s first expansion, Phantom Liberty, was announced in early September. It will be released forPC,PS5,Xbox Series X/SandStadiain 2023.
CD Projekt said Phantom Liberty is theonly planned expansion for the game, but that itremains “fully committed” to building the Cyberpunk IPbeyond the DLC’s release.
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The company also said it had made the “difficult decision” to not develop Phantom Liberty forPS4andXbox One“as the scope for the expansion makes releasing it for previous-gen consoles technologically challenging without compromising player experience”.
Phantom Liberty is billed as “a spy-thriller expansion for Cyberpunk 2077set in an all new district of Night City”.
