The massive image: Starfield shortly turned Bethesda’s greatest launch ever and considered one of the hottest video games on Steam. However, Cyberpunk 2077’s new expansion has pushed its player depend past Starfield’s solely a day after launch. Although neither recreation has reached Baldur’s Gate 3 on this space, it is secure to say that Cyberpunk’s redemption arc is full.
Following the launch of Cyberpunk’s Phantom Liberty expansion, the recreation has jumped simply above Starfield in Steam’s day by day player rating. CDPR’s flagship RPG is experiencing its largest player resurgence since its disastrous 2020 launch, having steadily (and painfully) repaired its repute.
Cyberpunk 2077 reached a peak of ~246,000 gamers on Tuesday, simply topping Starfield’s 122,000 however falling simply in need of 265,000 Baldur’s Gate 3 gamers. Larian’s critically acclaimed D&D RPG is the third hottest title on Steam, sitting behind evergreen esports mainstays Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
To be truthful, Baldur’s Gate 3 is extra closely weighted towards Steam than the different two RPGs. Larian’s recreation was unique to PC on Steam and GOG all through its three-year early entry interval and solely lately launched on PlayStation 5. Meanwhile, Starfield launched concurrently on Steam and Xbox and sure has a big variety of gamers by Game Pass, considerably suppressing its Steam numbers. Cyberpunk has the most divided player base between Steam, GOG, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation, and Xbox.
Phantom Liberty provides a big new storyline to CDPR’s dystopian RPG, set in a newly added district of the recreation’s Night City. Regardless of whether or not they buy the expansion, all Cyberpunk homeowners additionally obtain the 2.0 replace, which fully rebalances each side of the recreation.
Since the replace’s launch, gamers have found a enjoyable easter egg containing a brief first-person shooter resembling Doom or Wolfenstein 3D. Players can entry “Arasaka Tower 3D,” which stars the supporting character Johnny Silverhand, inside an deserted church north of the protein farm in the badlands exterior Night City.
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Additionally, PC customers with high-end graphics playing cards can activate the new path-tracing mode, which drastically improves lighting. Reviews reward the replace and expansion for fixing many, if not most, of the points that plagued Cyberpunk at launch.
The title was considered one of the most anticipated in latest reminiscence main as much as its unique launch however shipped with myriad glitches and console efficiency so unsatisfactory that Sony pulled it from the PlayStation retailer. CDPR has spent the final three years patching the recreation, and public notion of it began turning a nook in 2022 when a well-received spin-off anime sequence boosted distinctive player numbers past a million.
Phantom Liberty might be Cyberpunk’s solely expansion, as CDPR plans to shut the guide on its proprietary Red engine and transition to Unreal Engine 5 for future tasks.