New Mecha Break demo is the fourth largest sport on Steam after mere hours

Sunday February 23 @ 9:20am PT Superb Seasun Video games apologizes for the preliminary server issues, and says it’s going to compensate gamers with three batches of 5 Final Upkeep Containers delivered through in-game mail.

One other day means one more shock Steam launch has rocketed up the charts. As we speak it’s the Mecha Break demo, as gamers are getting a style for the PvP and PvE robotic fight sport. It’s already topping stalwarts like GTA 5, and has even managed to squeeze previous the constant participant numbers of Marvel Rivals too. As of writing it’s the fourth-biggest sport on Steam, with fairly the climb wanted to succeed in third place.

Developed by Superb Seasun Video games, Mecha Break is a multiplayer sport scheduled for launch later this yr. Proper now, nonetheless, there’s a free demo that anybody can become involved in on Steam. You possibly can fly round in 3v3 or 6v6 fights, and absolutely customise your mecha with paint jobs, decals, and an array of various patterns. It’s pure chaotic adrenaline, and it’s already exploding on Valve’s platform.

Because the demo dropped, gamers have been preloading Mecha Break in time for the launch on Sunday February 23. Now that it’s right here, the sport has virtually immediately shot as much as a staggering excessive of over 300,000 gamers. Within the time it’s taken me to assemble that info I’m virtually sure the concurrent participant quantity may have gone up once more, although. For reference, a playtest for the sport in August 2024 peaked at simply over 50,000 concurrents.

This implies Mecha Break has, within the house of just some hours, flown previous most video games on Steam. It already has extra gamers than Rust, GTA 5, Marvel Rivals, and Apex Legends. It’s nonetheless behind stalwarts like PUBG, Counter-Strike 2, and Dota 2, nonetheless. The final of these is sitting at round 700,000 gamers, so it would take some time for Mecha Break to catch up.

It’s not all prompt success for Superb Seasun Video games and Mecha Break, nonetheless, because the Steam critiques inform a unique story. The demo web page presently sits at 18%, or ‘overwhelmingly unfavorable,’ from round 1,700 critiques. Many of those critiques are in Chinese language, which means that a lot of gamers flocking to the sport are logging in from China. Virtually the entire critiques spotlight the identical concern: server disconnects.

Speak of connectivity and operational points are rampant within the Steam critiques. The Mecha Break demo has solely been dwell for a couple of hours to this point, however the immediately skyrocketing playercount might recommend that Superb Seasun Video games’ servers had been shortly overloaded by demand.

The developer has additionally already put Mecha Break into server-wide upkeep, which means nobody has been capable of play the sport for a short while. The crew doesn’t present a motive for the quick and transient shutdown, and it’s already again up, however my educated guess is that the studio is aiming to repair any server issues.

You possibly can obtain and play the Mecha Break demo on Steam proper now, with the complete sport set to launch this yr. You’ll discover it proper right here.

Because the demo’s launch, Superb Seasun Video games has apologized for the server points and provided compensation: “As our Open Beta went dwell earlier right this moment, we had been overwhelmed by your enthusiasm, witnessing over 300K concurrent gamers inside hours. This posed a problem to our server capability and resulted in unfavorable critiques from gamers. We apologize for any inconvenience and have addressed the server points.

“To compensate your time, we’re issuing [Ultimate Maintenance Box *15] in three batches (5 per batch), delivered through in-game mail.”

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