Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlords Steam Launch Is Even Bigger Than DOOM Eternals

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s Steam Launch Is Even Bigger Than DOOM Eternal’s

Shockingly, Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord has Steam’s biggest launch of 2020 after its concurrent player total surpassed Doom Eternal’s record.

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Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlords Steam Launch Is Even Bigger Than DOOM Eternals

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord just launched into early access on Steam, and the game has already surpassed Doom Eternal’s concurrent player total. As Bethesda revealed last week, Doom Eternal had the series’ best day-one sales and quickly became one of Steam’s biggest releases in 2020.

Mount & Blade first appeared on the gaming scene in 2008 as a medieval RPG with a number of innovative ideas. The game had uniquely intense and complex gameplay, but it wasn’t up to par in most other areas and didn’t achieve widespread popularity. However, Mount & Blade significantly improved over the years thanks to a diehard modding community and lauded standalone expansions, becoming a cult classic in the process. The sequel has now been in development for more than 8 years, and a playable early access version of Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord only just arrived on Steam. In spite of its comparatively low profile, the game already has some shockingly big numbers to share.

The official Mount & Blade Twitter account has highlighted the breakout success of Bannerlord in a series of tweets. In just 100 minutes after launch, the game had 100,000 concurrent players – and it only took 3 hours to reach 145,000 of them. This means it almost immediately overtook Doom Eternal, which hit a little over 100,000 concurrent players during its launch week. There’s also been a largely positive reception to Bannerlord so far, with over 1250 reviews on Steam and 88 percent of them being positive. Taken together, these numbers make this “the biggest launch on Steam in 2020.”

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Bannerlord’s concurrent player total has actually gone up since then, breaking into the top five most played games on Steam. Further tweets pointed out that it quickly became “the 5th most played game on Steam within 6 hours of its release in Early Access, at 160,000 concurrent players and preceded only by such games as CS:GO, Dota 2, PUBG and GTA V.” Bannerlord didn’t stop there, however, as it soon moved past the ever-popular GTA V and even stretched beyond PUBG before settling back into 4th place.

This news will come as a surprise to many, considering the fact that Mount & Blade has always been a niche title. Its established, dedicated community is probably the driving factor here, and it’s impressive that these figures can compete with the likes of Doom Eternal and its much more recognizable name. As developer TaleWorlds has already said, this is only the beginning for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, but it’s a strong start indeed.

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