One month later, it again only lost 40% of its players. It took 3 whole months before Witcher 3 lost more than 79% of its players on Steam.Īt the start of 2020, hype for Cyberpunk and a sale helped Witcher 3 break its own all-time peak record with 103k concurrent players on Steam. Open-world games like Cyberpunk are usually the exception, and compared to The Witcher 3, CDPR’s new digital playground certainly isn’t doing as well at keeping players interested in coming back for more.Īlthough CDPR’s previous hit only peaked with 92k players during its launch back in May 2015, The Witcher 3 was still able to retain over half its player base with a peak of 55k players online a month later.

While that 79% drop in players is worrying, most singleplayer games typically lose around the same amount of players, if not even more, after their first month on Steam. But over this past weekend, Cyberpunk continued its decline, struggling to peak at 225k players. When Cyberpunk 2077 launched a little over 3 weeks ago, it became the first singleplayer game ever to break 1 million concurrent players on Steam. And when comparing the new IP to CDPR’s previous biggest game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the dev/publisher could be in even more trouble. Unfortunately, Cyberpunk 2077 hasn’t been able to maintain its player base on Steam.

However, without the same performance issues that ruined its launch on consoles, Cyberpunk 2077 has done much better on PC, debuting at #1 on Steam with over 1 million players and maintaining Mostly Positive feedback from over 300k player reviews. Since the divisive launch of Cyberpunk 2077 last month, CD Projekt Red’s new futuristic RPG was pulled from the PlayStation Store with both Microsoft and Sony offering full refunds – something we’ve never seen happen to a triple-A game.

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