Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is BioWare’s Biggest Launch Ever On Steam

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is BioWare’s biggest launch on Steam, reaching the top spot on Steam’s sales charts and knocking down Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

According to SteamDB, Dragon Age: The Veilguard has peaked at 70,414 concurrent players within the first 24 hours of its release. This beats out BioWare’s previous record of 59,817 concurrent players for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.

BioWare put extra effort into making sure the PC version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard was up to snuff on Steam. The game is verified on Steam Deck, and passes Valve’s internal tests on inputs, display, performance, and seamlessness. A technical breakdown of the PC version by Digital Foundry revealed it to be an excellent port, which is often not the case at launch for major game releases on PC.

It also doesn’t require players to use the EA App (the successor to Origin) to play it on PC. Previous EA games required users to play them on the EA App, so this marks a big shift in EA’s launch strategy. However, players to agree to a third-party EULA, as noted by the Steam page.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now available for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. In GameSpot’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard review, we said, “The Veilguard feels like BioWare making a good BioWare game again, and that in itself makes me extraordinarily happy.”