As revealed by Techland, Dying Light 2 is already one of Steam’s most-played games ever, despite only recently launching. The new game was released just last week on February 4 after more than a year of delays. In spite of its troubled development, Dying Light 2 received mostly positive reviews, with reviewers praising its gameplay, large open-world, and RPG elements. However, some of its drawbacks seem to include technical issues and a lackluster story, despite having a larger focus on narrative than its predecessor.

Thankfully, it’s likely that the issues that Dying Light 2 currently has will eventually be resolved as developer and publisher Techland has promised that it plans to support the game for at least five years after its release. The support that the studio mentions includes post-game content such as new stories, locations, and events that could help enrich the game further. The support can also be assumed to include plans to fix technical issues the game has, something that’s already happening with patches. Even at its launch, over 1000 Dying Light 2 bugs were fixed in its day one patch.

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In a press release, Techland shared a few details on Dying Light 2‘s performance numbers, revealing the game peaked at nearly 275,000 concurrent players on Steam. It puts the new game at 23rd place for all-time peak concurrent players on the platform, putting it in the same league as games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Destiny 2, and Halo Infinite, among many others. The studio also shared that over 18 million hours and up to 512,000 people simultaneously were viewing Dying Light 2 content on both Twitch and YouTube.

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For a platform like Steam that has thousands upon thousands of games on it, garnering 23rd place for all-time peak concurrent players is a pretty impressive feat especially for a mostly single-player game. Even with its popular multiplayer mode, Halo Infinite’s Steam chart performance sits right below Dying Light 2. While it’s perfectly possible that Halo Infinite may overtake Dying Light 2 eventually thanks to its multiplayer, the latter’s potential post-game content could also help push its peak concurrent player count even higher.

For a game that went through a lot of issues during its development, it’s impressive to see how well Dying Light 2 is performing on Steam. It’s worth noting that the numbers given by Techland don’t account for the number of people playing the new release across PlayStation and Xbox platforms, meaning there’s even more fans stepping into the zombie-fuelled sequel.

Dying Light 2 is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

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