Respawn’s battle royale Apex Legends could have been launched all the way in which again in 2019, however participant statistics present that the sport has simply had its greatest month ever on Steam, with a peak participant rely of 392,998 – and that’s solely a part of the story.
The statistics displaying the most effective peak participant rely for February 2022 come from Steam Charts, an internet site that screens what number of gamers are enjoying video games from the Steam database, together with monitoring common, peak, and concurrent participant counts for every recreation throughout time.
You may need realised, then, that these numbers don’t embody the exercise of people who play Apex Legends on different platforms. So not solely does this not embody the quite a few variations of the sport on consoles like PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, and Nintendo Swap, however these figures additionally don’t present how many individuals play the sport via Origin, EA’s personal storefront.
The elevated curiosity in Apex Legends is probably going because of the recreation’s Season 12 replace, which was launched earlier within the month and introduced with it some large modifications. A brand new Legend referred to as Mad Maggie joined the fray, there was a brand new limited-time mode referred to as Management launched, and a bunch of rewards for logging in to have fun the sport’s three-year anniversary.
It’s not day by day {that a} recreation hits its highest recorded participant rely three years after releasing, so evidently Apex Legends is just going from energy to energy, and that’s based mostly solely on the sport’s Steam exercise. Will probably be fascinating to see whether or not March can push the battle royale’s reputation to new heights when the Apex Legends Cell launch date rolls round in a couple of days.
