Summary
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 soared to the top ten single-player games on Steam, hitting 256,206 concurrent players.
- It surpassed popular titles like Dragon’s Dogma 2, cementing its position as a successful single-player game.
- The game could potentially continue climbing the charts, with single-player games often peaking on the second weekend post-release.
I don’t even think Warhorse Studios could have foreseen the immediate success of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. The game launched with an 89 on OpenCritic, scoring a 5/5 from us at TheGamer, and instantly hit 160,000 concurrent users on Steam. Then, over the weekend, it flew past 230,000 players, peaking at 256,206.
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While impressive on its own, that number moves the grotty RPG into Steam’s top ten most-played single-player-only games of all time, according to SteamDB.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Is Now One Of The Most-Played Single-Player Games Ever
When taking into account any game that doesn’t feature any multiplayer components, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s 256,000 players sees it break into the top ten games on Steam, pushing out 2024’s Dragon’s Dogma 2, which peaked at 228,585 players on the Valve-owned platform.
Black Myth: Wukong smashed all records last year when it was being played by 2.4 million players at the same time. This number made Wukong the most-played single-player game by a margin of 1.4 million, and it became the second most-played game of all time, behind PUBG: Battlegrounds and its peak of almost 3.3 million.
Bethesda is by far the most prolific single-player-only developer, with three games, Fallout 4, Starfield, and, of course, Skyrim, all sitting among the top ten.
The full top ten is as follows:
|
Ranking |
Game |
Peak Concurrent Player Count |
|
1 |
Black Myth: Wukong |
2,415,714 |
|
2 |
Cyberpunk 2077 |
1,054,388 |
|
3 |
Hogwarts Legacy |
879,308 |
|
4 |
Fallout 4 |
472,962 |
|
5 |
Life Is Strange 2 |
468,717 |
|
6 |
Kathy Rain |
348,015 |
|
7 |
Starfield |
330,723 |
|
8 |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
287,411 |
|
9 |
Kholat |
272,019 |
|
10 |
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 |
256,206 |
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 only seems to be building momentum at this point, and single-player games often reach their peak on the second weekend after release, so there is still plenty of time for it to continue to climb the charts.
RPG
Action-Adventure
Open-World
- Released
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February 4, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ // Use of Alcohol, Blood and Gore, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity
- Developer(s)
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Warhorse Studios