Summary
Red Dead Redemption 2may have beenreleased on Steam in 2019, butRockstar Games' sequel to the original Red Dead Redemptionhas just set a new record for concurrent players.
The culprit? A massive sale that has dropped the 2018 title to its lowest price ever.
Over on SteamDB, a websitethat tracks all things Steam related, including price history, patches and player concurrents, Red Dead Redemption 2has achieved an all-time peak of 99,993 concurrent players. That mark was set just seven hours ago, and at the time of writing, 66,863 players are still actively playing.
That figure reset a record that was set late last month, when 86,717 players booted up the game onPC.
Prior to the sale, the game hit 77,655 players in November 2023. At its launch in 2019, it topped 55,271 concurrents, with various ebbs and flows in the time since then.
As for the sale itself,the game is being offered at $14.99 for its base edition, and $19.99 for the Ultimate Edition. It’s part ofa massive sale for Rockstar titles that has also seen the Complete Edition of Grand Theft Auto 4 drop to just $5.99, among other highlights.
Steam Sales Have Helped Games Before
Late last year,the embattled Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had a player count of 2,561, something it hadn’t experienced since a month after launch. That resurgence wasdue to a massive sale that cut the game by 95 percent. Prior to that, the title had been hovering in the hundreds.
Before that, The Crew 2 also experienced a huge jump in popularity.Ubisoft’s title jumped to a record 22,675 players on Steam, up from 12,707, after it was announced that an offline mode would be coming to the game, coupled with a sale that saw the game drop to as low as $1. In other words, Steam sales aren’t just good for your wallet. They can also be good for helping a game surge in popularity.
