Starfield Records Good Activity on Steam, but Not Enough to Compete With Baldur's Gate 3 [Update]
Starfield is achieving impressive activity results on Steam, although due to its availability in Game Pass, the game never had a chance to beat the record achieved by Baldur's Gate 3.
In the end, the record for the first weekend after Starfield's release was 330,723 concurrent users. For comparison: Skyrim boasts a peak of 287,411 players, and Fallout 4 - 472,962 people.
Several days have already passed since the release of Starfield, the latest space RPG from Bethesda, so it is worth taking a look at how the game is doing.
- Yesterday the title set an activity record of 313,993 concurrent users on Steam.
- This is an impressive result, although it falls far short of Baldur's Gate 3, which shortly after the release of version 1.0 achieved an activity record of 875,000 players.
- Of course, it should be remembered that the numbers on Steam do not fully reflect the popularity of Starfield, as the game is also available on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series X, and, most importantly, can be played using the Game Pass subscription on both PC and consoles.
- However, even despite these caveats, it seems likely that Baldur's Gate 3 won in terms of player activity on PC. After all, on September 7 (the day after its release) Bethesda boasted that Starfield was played by one million concurrent players across all hardware platforms. A large proportion of these people played on Xbox consoles, while BG3 reached 875 thousand on Steam alone (and the game is also available on GOG.com).
However, Bethesda has no reasons to complain, 313 thousand is a great result, especially considering the game's availability on Game Pass, and on top of that, the game met with a warm reception. On Steam, 78% of reviews are positive.
The developers have also boasted that Starfield recorded the best launch in Bethesda's history, and by September 8 the number of people who had played the title exceeded 6 million.
