The Steam version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has hit more concurrent players than any other single-player Final Fantasy game on the platform.
Rebirth was released onPCon January 23 and, according to data onSteamDB(as spotted byEurogamer), hit a peak of 40,564 concurrent players over the weekend.
This is higher than any other single-player Final Fantasy game has achieved onSteam, and is significantly higher than the previous leader, Final Fantasy 15 (which hit a concurrent peak of 29,498).
It should be noted, however, that Rebirth’s numbers don’t give it the title of most concurrent users for any Final Fantasy game ever – it only counts for single-player games.
Its peak still pales in comparison to that of long-running MMO Final Fantasy 14 Online, which hit a peak of more than 95,150 – more than double that ofFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth– following the release of its Endwalker expansion.
Final Fantasy series – Top 10 peak concurrent Steam players
Square Enixpreviously said that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 sales “did not meet expectations”, and that it planned to “shift to a multiplatform strategy” going forward.
WhileFinal Fantasy 7 Remakeand Rebirth were released as exclusives onPS4andPS5respectively, they were eventually released on PC.
Given Square Enix’s new multiplatform strategy and comments from Rebirth’s directorsaying he wants to see the trilogy appearing on more platformslikeXbox, it’s not yet clear if the third game in the trilogy will have a similar timed exclusivity window, because the terms of Square Enix andSony‘s exclusivity deal for the third part remain unknown.
