Turns out, people still like single-player BioWare RPGs as Dragon Age: The Veilguard tops sales charts and breaks Steam records for the studio
Over 70,000 people were playing The Veilguard at the same time, and it’s not even the weekend yet
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The decade-long wait for another game inBioWare’s epic fantasy series has paid off big time as the newly releasedDragon Age: The Veilguardis already breaking records.
After its own rocky development journey, Dragon Age: The Veilguard finally released just yesterday to both solid reviews and a record number of players on Steam. According toSteamDBestimates, the fourth Dragon Age game pulled in more than 70,000 concurrent players who were fighting to protect the Veil all at the same time. The RPG has also topped the platform’s ‘Top Sellers’ chart and even passed Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on the list.
Publisher EA is probably chuffed since The Veilguard is now its one of its biggest single-player launches on the platform, narrowly passing Star Wars Jedi Survivor’s peak concurrent numbers, which were already impressive a year ago, but not quite reaching The Sims 4’s 96,000 peak record - and who can blame ‘em? It’s The Sims.
Developer BioWare can still throw a party and call the game a record-breaker since it did set a new record for the studio itself. The Veilguard overtook Mass Effect: Legendary Edition’s 59,000-player peak to become the company’s biggest Steam release of all time.
We don’t fully know how The Veilguard is stacking up alongside BioWare’s biggest hits, however. EA famously stopped releasing games on Steam in 2011, andonly began again in 2019, so we don’t actually have a concrete idea of how big the crowds were for Mass Effect 3 or Dragon Age: Inquisition on launch day. Either way, after a decade of low points from Anthem and Mass Effect: Andromeda to internal troubles and layoffs, it’s good to see the storied studio find success doing what it does best.
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that’s vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he’ll soon forget.
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