The co-op shooter captivates tens of thousands of fans in front of their screens and is already approaching the top 10 most played Steam games

The co-op shooter Helldivers 2 can’t complain about a lack of success. Just one day after its release, the title can boast of being the most successful PlayStation game in Steam history so far.

Read correctly: Helldivers 2 is distributed by Sony and is thus in the illustrious circle of such high-caliber games as Horizon: Zero Dawn, God of War or The Last of Us: Part 1.

All of these mentioned titles have easily overtaken Helldivers 2 on Steam after just 24 hours.

Already over 80,000 players simultaneously

Clearly, in times of a Palworld with its 528,000 active players at the time of this article, the success of Helldivers 2 with its currently 60,000 shooter fans seems almost puny.

The fact is, however, that no PlayStation title has been able to make such an impact on Steam. The all-time high for Helldivers 2 so far is around 81,000 players! This puts the shooter in 14th place among the most-played Steam games at the moment

The flip side of success: The first few hours after release the servers often couldn’t cope with the onslaught and fans had to endure repeated outages.

(The number of players for Helldivers 2 so far is more than impressive.)

For comparison: The PC port of the aforementioned Horizon: Zero Dawn has a maximum of 56,557  concurrent players. God of War still comes pretty close with 73,529 players on Helldivers 2. And The Last of Us: Part 1 is far behind with  36,496 players.

Of course, it is not yet clear whether the success of Helldivers 2 will continue unabated. However, the shooter has definitely laid a good foundation for a long-term future with its impressive launch.

If you’re also interested in Helldivers 2 now, we’ve got the big info package ready to go as usual. What system requirements does your computer need to meet? What technical problems are there at the moment? And what free content will be released in the future? You can find out all this in the articles linked above. Are you having fun with Helldivers 2? Let us know in the comments!

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