Aside from Crimson Desert, one of the hottest games (on PC, anyway) is the pirate sandbox MMO Windrose, which is quickly sailing up the Steam charts with over 100,000 players swashbuckling three days after launch.
According to the player tracker SteamDB, Windrose has a concurrent player count of 102,999 players. That puts it at the No. 11 spot on the Most Played Games list, beating out the life sim Stardew Valley (~100,000) but trailing behind the action-adventure RPG Crimson Desert (~113,000). It’s nowhere near the likes of Counter Strike 2 (~1.4 million) or Slay the Spire 2 (~286,000); however, for a game that hit early access on April 14, reaching an all-time peak of 113,930 and not just maintaining that but almost cresting that is an impressive feat to behold.
It makes sense, in a way. With over 4,500 reviews that amount to a “very positive” rating on Steam, Windrose harkens back to a game like Risen–if it were actually good–and proves gamers are desperate for more pirate adventures. Who doesn’t like pillaging and plundering? And with the reports that the Black Flag remake, officially titled Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced, is launching on July 9, it appears now’s the time for pirates to dominate just as ninja and samurai have.
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