Key Takeaways
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is seeing a massive spike in player counts.
- According to SteamDB, the game is experiencing 24-hour peaks of around 2,000 players, figures it hasn’t seen since March.
- Those spikes could be in relation to the game’s massive discount, with gamers likely opting to give the looter shooter a try.
It’s no secret that the winter holidays are some of the best times to be a gamer. With the massive discounts on existing games, coupled with the number of days off and the cold weather outside, there are few better things than cozying up with a good game.
And while many gamers are checking out some of 2024s best releases, like Metaphor: ReFantazio or Astro Bot, a good portion of gamers have returned to one of 2024s most divisive titles. No, not Concord.
Instead, gamers are flocking to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. In recent days, Rocksteady’s live-service looter shooter has seen a resurgence online — one it hasn’t experienced since its initial launch in February.
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The Squad Is Showing Up
Over on SteamDB, a website dedicated to housing info on Steam games, including update history and player counts, Suicide Squad has 2,506 players online. Its 24-hour peak sits at 2,561, something it hasn’t experienced since March, when it had a rolling 24-hour peak of 3,042 players.
Prior to this recent spike, the game had been seeing player counts in the 100 range, including lows of under 140 concurrent players in late August. Every now and again, the game would experience a slight spike in players, though nothing beyond several hundred, and largely in response to seasonal content updates.
It’s unclear why exactly Suicide Squad has spiked, though it likely has to do with the fact that the game having a massive discount. It almost certainly doesn’t have to do with the game’s Season 3, which was largely panned by hardcore fans back in September. As TheGamer’s Josh Coulson wrote, the Digital Deluxe Edition of the game was recently 95 percent off.
Yes, 95 percent.
That 95 percent turned an $89.99 base price into an extremely palatable $4.99. At that price, it’s likely that a lot of gamers may have decided to jump in just for the heck of it. Still, with Season 4 looming, it must be a good feeling for those keeping the game alive to have new people to play with.
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