Amazon Game Studios’ New World hit the top of Steam‘s concurrent player charts, briefly overtaking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.Over the past 24 hours, New World hit a peak player count of 913,634, according to SteamDB.
The number was reached at about 8pm BST on Sunday, October 3. This put it at the top of the Steam concurrent player list, overtaking other giants such as Dota 2 and Counter-strike: Global Offensive.
Dota 2 had a peak of 595,123 players, while Counter-Strike: Global Offensive reached 779,733.The high number of players comes despite a rocky launch for New World.
The game continues to suffer from long server queues, which means that players will often need to wait to access their characters.
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