It’s a mixed bag, then, but those are all also exactly the kinds of games that PC-centric players go wild for. Throw in the fact it has some cool splash art and a relatively cheap price-tag and maybe it’s not the biggest surprise that, just one week after launch, 127,000 people played V Rising on Steam today. That puts it at #6 on the entire platform, behind only juggernaut online stalwarts like Counter-Strike and Destiny.

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It was apparently a surprise to the people actually making the game, too. “I absolutely did not expect this many people”, developer Stunlock’s Jeremy Fielding told IGN. “I don’t think anybody expected it to be quite this big. Well, buddy, it is. There were over 50,000 people playing the game within hours of its release, and it’s all-time concurrent record on Steam is over 150,000 players.

(I’ll add here that Stunlock are hardly first-timers here, or strangers to initial success on Steam, having released Battlerite a few years ago to similar headlines, so maybe they weren’t totally surprised)

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You can check out the game on Steam here. And because I’ve seen loads of people asking this, while there is multiplayer, you absolutely do not need it to play and enjoy the game. It works as a single-player experience just fine. We’ll hopefully have some impressions of the game after we’ve spent some more time with it later this week!