It’s been a stable yr for co-op shooters, to say the least. Spearheaded by Helldivers 2’s surprising increase, it’s now Warhammer 40k House Marine 2’s flip to make some noise. After an already spectacular exhibiting with its early entry launch final week, it has simply totally opened its doorways and achieved an almighty peak Steam participant depend – one which sees it smash a Warhammer video games document.
Whereas Helldivers 2 appeared like a nailed-on certainty to be topped greatest co-op sport of the yr, House Marine 2 is placing up a hell of a struggle to beat it to that crown. Its early entry launch was a hit, with a peak of 134,000 gamers, however that’s nothing in comparison with what it’s simply achieved immediately, September 9, on its full launch.
On the time of writing, the 24-hour peak concurrent participant depend for House Marine 2 on Steam is 225,690. That’s the highest peak ever achieved by any of the Warhammer video games and Warhammer 40k video games that got here earlier than it, toppling the earlier document of 166,754 that was set by Complete Warfare: Warhammer 3 in 2022.
There’s each probability that because the week progresses, and extra folks hear about how enjoyable House Marine 2 is, this peak participant depend might be nudged up even greater. Will it get near the 458,000 peak that Helldivers 2 reached? Virtually actually not. However House Marine 2 is placing on a way more spectacular exhibiting than I, and lots of others, anticipated.
In addition to attaining an enormous peak participant depend, House Marine 2’s consumer critiques have additionally recovered properly. Because of points resembling connecting your Epic account to entry crossplay and a few efficiency wobbles, it was sitting at a 67% Blended score a number of days in the past. Now, it’s clawed its manner as much as Very Constructive standing, with 80% of critiques now being optimistic ones.
Whereas we had some reservations about it in our House Marine 2 overview, there’s no denying that the core gameplay mechanics are stable – and on the finish of the day, the easy enjoyable of brutally blasting bugs along with your friends is sufficient to win anybody over. In fact, there’s PvP as effectively for anybody who desires to get aggressive, nevertheless it’s the co-op PvE gameplay that’s actually resonating proper now.
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