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News video games 13 February 2023, 10:45

Hogwarts Legacy Going Strong on Steam but Short of CP2077 and Elden Ring [UPDATE]

Hogwarts Legacy has jumped to third place in the ranking of single player games with the most number of simultaneously active players on Steam. The game is hot on Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring's heels.

Eventually, the record for the first post-release weekend of Hogwarts Legacy on Steam amounted to 879,308 concurrent users. The game fell a little short of the records of Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring, but the result is still hugely impressive.

Hogwarts Legacy has been hugely popular since its Friday launch, as confirmed by data collected by SteamDB. According to them so far, the game by Avalanche Software was simultanesouly played by as many as 807 112 people on Valve's platform at the same time.

The huge interest in the game set in the universe known from the novels and movies about the wizard Harry Potter should not come as a surprise. Even before the premiere, the title found itself at the top of the bestseller list on Steam.

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The Hogwarts Legacy result is impressive but not surprising.steamdb.info

The high result was also heralded by data from early access - an option for users who decided to preorder Hogwarts Legacy in the more expensive Deluxe edition. On the eve of the official debut, the counter indicated more than 489,000 users in the game at the same time.

Hogwarts Legacy Interactive Maps

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We've prepared interactive maps for Hogwarts Legacy that contain the game's secrets, collectibles, Merlin trials, collection chests, ancient magic hotspots, sidequests and more. Make sure to check out our original guide and the interactive maps.

In view of the above, it seemed that it was possible to break the activity record in the category of high-budget games focused on single player gameplay. At the moment, however, the game still ranks third in this regard - the first place is held by Cyberpunk 2077 (the record is 1.05 million concurrent players), and second is last year's blockbuster, Elden Ring (953 thousand).

Nevertheless Hogwarts Legacy still has a chance to improve its result before the end of the premiere weekend. We will follow the situation and update this news.

Krzysztof Kaluzinski

Krzysztof Kaluzinski

At GRYOnline.pl, works in the Newsroom. He is not afraid to tackle various topics, although he prefers news about independent productions in the style of Disco Elysium. In his childhood, he wrote fantasy stories, played a lot on Pegasus, and then on a computer. He turned his passion into a profession as an editor of a gaming portal run with a friend, as well as a copywriter and advisor in a console store. He doesn't care for remakes and long-running series. Since childhood, he wanted to write a novel, although he is definitely better at creating characters than plot. That's probably why he fell in love with RPGs (paper and virtual). He was raised in the 90s, to which he would gladly return. Loves Tarantino movies, thanks to Mad Max and the first Fallout he lost himself in post-apo, and Berserk convinced him to dark fantasy. Today he tries his hand at e-commerce and marketing, while also supporting the Newsroom on weekends, which allows him to continue cultivating old passions.

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