Lost Ark, a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game, surpassed one million simultaneous players, making it only the fifth game on Steam to do so. The popularity of this game has led many players to download it for its launch on February 11. Now, just a day after its release, Lost Ark is already among the most successful games on Steam concurrent player rankings. .
Lost Ark's focus on action MMORPG brought a lot of fans to this new game and it broke records on Twitch as well. The popularity of the game in Korea is now spreading all over the world.
Only four games have reached one million players simultaneously on Steam: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, CounterStrike: Global Offensive, DOTA 2 and Cyberpunk 2077.
The most impressive stat to come out of this is that Lost Ark is the second most player rated on Steam. If you narrow down the game genre, Lost Ark is the first for multiplayer RPG games for simultaneous players on Steam. However, Cyberpunk 2077 holds the record for the highest peak player ever for a single-player RPG.
Lost Ark's focus on making the most of legacy MMOs and avoiding pay-to-win pitfalls has been a path to success for him. This increase in players within a few days of official release is a sign that MMOs are still something fans are looking for. From multiple classes to play and learn to a fun combat system, Lost Ark starts off strong.
