Helldivers 2 is unquestionably one of many greatest video games of 2024, and appropriately sufficient, it looks like it’s ending the 12 months on a excessive. At The Recreation Awards, developer Arrowhead Recreation 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 big resurgence in participant numbers.
Over latest weeks, Helldivers 2 had settled into a median of 20-30k concurrent gamers on Steam, however as per SteamDB, because the aforementioned replace went reside, Helldivers 2’s Steam concurrent participant rely has climbed as excessive as 137,735 gamers. That, by the way, is the best that the sport’s Steam concurrent participant rely has been in over half a 12 months, because the PlayStation Community account linking fiasco in Might. It’s all-time peak, in fact, is over 438,000 gamers, which it hit shortly following its launch in February.
Helldivers 2 is out there on PS5 and PC. In November, it was introduced that the sport had surpassed 15 million gamers throughout each platforms.
