The previous was actually Hades 2 which surprised me too.
Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam
justsquigglez@leminal.space 14 hours ago
Hot damn, that’s actually wild considering his original game being so popular already, and also the first Hades AND Vampire Survivors existing.
Definitely gonna pick it up myself at some point soon.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Hazardous_area@piefed.world 10 hours ago
Super worth picking up if you like grid based tactics type games. It has so much more depth than I was expecting, every run or two I’m getting some new twist or ability that makes it play quite differently to anything I’ve tried yet.
Plus the sound track is great.
justsquigglez@leminal.space 14 hours ago
Oh, after doing some research, it seems the person who wrote this article did not do theirs. I’m pretty sure Don’t Starve Together, Megabonk, and Elden Ring Nightreign (if you want to count that) all still beat out Mewgenics (especially Nightreign if we count it, by like such a large gap.)
taiyang@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The article is bunk, but oddly enough the all time high by Steamdb suggests it’s around tied with DST, Megabonk, Hades II, and a few others at 115k-ish.
Nightreign, as AAA go, 313k at peak, lol.
You can still tell the article is bunk for comparing it to Stray as a cat game. Oh yeah, sure, while we’re at it let’s compare to Hello Kitty Island players, eh? AI logic. Lol
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Gotta wonder where Binding of Isaac falls on the list since it’s been out so long and it’s players tend to be the ones that put hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into it.
taiyang@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The article is talking about concurrent play, which generally peaks near release for all genres, with a few exceptions (like Hollow Knights sleeper numbers). Isaac came out when there was relatively fewer players and it’s a slow growth, so the original probably didn’t have a very high concurrent count.
The remake is around 70k peak, although it’s oddly high at 20k right now, perhaps because if Mewgenics.