[PC Gamer} Dune: Awakening falls just shy of Steam's top 100 as it nets 142,000 players on its first proper launch day

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SteamDB's all-time concurrent player rankings, just between Clair Obscur and the open beta for New World: Aeternum. So not even in the top 100. Dismal failure. Funcom should probably just pack it in.Or not. 142,000 players online simultaneously seems pretty good for a game that hit on a Tuesday, and I'd be flabbergasted if Dune didn't easily pip that record when everyone's home this weekend.I'm curious to see how high it'll go. As I wrote in my Dune: Awakening preview several hundred years ago (January), it's the first and only survival-y, crafting-y game to actually capture and hold my attention, and I reckon I'm not alone in that. Our Chris Livingston has been enjoying the game in his Dune review in progress, and even our online editor Fraser Brown—avowed enemy of survival games—is enjoying himself when he's not going slowly mad in an endless dungeon.So I think this Dune thing has legs, which is kind of weird given it's a psychedelic tale about space-Algerian freedom fighters let by a warlord high out of his gourd on worm excrement, but who am I to condemn what the kids are into these days? All I know is it's a pretty fun game to drink people's blood in, and it seems over 100,000 people agree with me.Dune: Awakening trainer locations: Learn new skills
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Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/dune- ... aunch-day/