Lost Ark becomes the second most played game in Steam history after just 24 hours

Misplaced Ark has comfortably handed 1 million concurrent gamers after simply 24 hours, turning into the second most performed sport in Steam historical past by concurrent counts. The Diablo-like MMO launched yesterday within the West, after Amazon Video games collaborated with Smilegate RPG to localize and translate Misplaced Ark and make it obtainable in English. It has now handed concurrent information for each Counter-Strike: International Offensive and Dota 2, which frequently dominate the highest of Steam’s most-played video games.

Misplaced Ark is so fashionable proper now that it has skilled server points and there’s a queue simply to start out enjoying. SteamDB lists concurrent gamers of Misplaced Ark at 1,311,842, passing CS:GO’s file of 1,308,963 gamers and Dota 2’s of 1,295,114. It’s not clear precisely what number of of these gamers are literally actively enjoying the sport and never sitting in a server queue, although.

Both approach, it’s now second place on the highest concurrent checklist behind solely PUGB. It nonetheless has an extended method to go to beat PUBG’s all-time peak of three,257,248 gamers. Misplaced Ark is a second big hit for Amazon Video games, after New World set a concurrent file of 913,634 gamers 4 months in the past.

Misplaced Ark was initially launched in 2019 in South Korea, and has thousands and thousands of energetic gamers in South Korea, Russia, and Japan. It’s free-to-play and has additionally shortly risen to the highest of Twitch, overtaking the favored Simply Chatting class.