‘Cyberpunk 2077’ breaks single player record on Steam

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Cyberpunk 2077 cleared 1 million concurrent players on Steam and 1 million live viewers on Twitch on its launch day (December 10).The previous record for concurrent Steam players on launch day for a single player game was held by Fallout 4, which was released in 2015.

Bethesda’s post nuclear RPG peaked at 472,000, meaning CD Projekt Red more than doubled it with Cyberpunk 2077.Those figures put the game fourth in the all time peak list, behind PUBG, CS:GO, and Dota 2.One of the players streaming the game yesterday was Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek, who pulled in over 100,000 viewers alone.

He played through the games opening Corpo story for viewers.Shroud is Twitch’s third most popular streamer, with over 8 million followers.