Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 rockets past the first game's peak player count as it pips into Steam's top 100 most-played games

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I have, in the past few days, written the word 'Bohemia' more than I ever have or likely ever will again in my professional life. It's down to the release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, of course, Warhorse's really quite good medieval RPG set in the rambling forests and plains of, well, Bohemia.

I reckon quite a lot of people have the word on their minds, too. At time of writing, KCD2's peak concurrent player count on SteamDB is sitting pretty at 160,000 players. Not bad for a game with such a fanatical focus on (some kind of) realism that you can smell too bad for stealth.

KCD2, on the other hand, has just about squeaked into SteamDB's top 100. 160,000 peak players puts it between the Battlefield 2042 open beta (beneath it) and Enshrouded (above). It's worth bearing in mind, too, that the game launched on a Tuesday. I'm curious to see if the game manages to climb even higher up the charts when the weekend rolls around and everyone who was preoccupied with stupid stuff like their 'jobs' and 'families' can finally charge into battle to die for the glory of King Wenceslas.

One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. He'll play pretty much anything, and has written far too much on everything from visual novels to Assassin's Creed. His most profound loves are for CRPGs, immersive sims, and any game whose ambition outstrips its budget. He thinks you're all far too mean about Deus Ex: Invisible War.