Helldivers 2 is indubitably one of many largest video games of 2024, and appropriately sufficient, it looks as if it’s ending the yr on a excessive. At The Sport Awards, developer Arrowhead Sport Studios showcased a serious new replace for the co-op shooter titled Omens of Tyranny, including a brand new faction, enemy varieties, planets, and extra. Within the aftermath of the replace, the sport has loved a major resurgence in participant numbers.
Over current weeks, Helldivers 2 had settled into a mean of 20-30k concurrent gamers on Steam, however as per SteamDB, because the aforementioned replace went dwell, Helldivers 2’s Steam concurrent participant depend has climbed as excessive as 137,735 gamers. That, by the way, is the very best that the sport’s Steam concurrent participant depend has been in over half a yr, because the PlayStation Community account linking fiasco in Could. It’s all-time peak, in fact, is over 438,000 gamers, which it hit shortly following its launch in February.
Helldivers 2 is accessible on PS5 and PC. In November, it was introduced that the sport had surpassed 15 million gamers throughout each platforms.