- Detroit: Become Human just hit its highest ever player count on Steam, 8 years following the game’s initial launch.
- Over the holiday period, the game sold nearly a million copies thanks to a major discount that slashed the price to just $4.
- Developer Quantic Dream is now working on 2 new titles, including a Star Wars game and a new F2P 3v3 shooter.
Detroit: Become Human remains one of the best storytelling video games of all time, an indie masterpiece released almost 8 years ago as a PlayStation exclusive, later finding its way to PC.
Surprisingly, the nearly decade-old game was one of the best-performing on Steam during the holiday period. Following a discount that slashed its price to just $4, Detroit: Become Human has now reached its peak player count on Steam just a few days later.
Why it matters: It’s unusual for a game to perform this well years after its release. Fortunately, the title got the popularity it deserved thanks to the Steam sale.
As seen above, Detroit: Become Human reached a peak player count of 25k 5 days ago and is averaging 10k players this month. The Steam sale led to a 135% boost in the game’s player count.
Just in December, the game sold just a few thousand shy of a million copies, outpacing newer releases like Battlefield 6 and others.
The Winter Sale was a surprising period, and many older titles gained popularity, including Cyberpunk 2077, as usual, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, which received a second wind following the massive third-person update, and more.
Now, developer Quantic Dream is well deep into development for their next project, which is a change in the genre for them, now making a competitive multiplayer game. Alongside the stated title, which is an F2P with 3v3 matches, they’re also working on another project, Star Wars: Eclipse, that follows a similar narrative-driven structure to Detroit: Become Human.
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