Realm Royale lost about 95% of its Steam player base since launch

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Realm Royale, the battle royale shooter from Paladins, and Smite developer Hi-Rez, has seemingly lost players’ interest in the two months since its release.

Realm Royale entered Steam Early Access on June 5. Right out of the gate, the game wasn’t very popular, attracting less than 5,000 concurrent players daily on Steam.

Several Twitch streamers picked it up, however, during its launch week – including Ninja, Shroud and many others. This caused numbers to jump considerably, and allowed Realm Royale to reach a peak of over 100,000 players, according to analysis by Githyp.

This rise in popularity sadly didn’t last, and the game’s concurrent Steam numbers continued to decline steadily since then. In the last 24 hours, Realm Royale peaked at just 5,194 players. Compare this to 105,167 in June, and you’ll see that numbers dropped by a massive 95%.



Very few games manage to keep their record-setting peak numbers for long. If you take free weekends out of the equation, most games continue to decline or hover around a set number of players in the months after launch. This has been the case with Rainbow Six Siege, GTA 5, Warframe and several other in Steam’s top ten.

That said, a 95% drop could signal a stark player disinterest that may be hard to flip.

While I am not familiar with the game enough to say for sure, it seems the official subReddit is full of nothing but complaints and negative feedback, most of it about gameplay changes. Though that is ultimately something most online games go through.

For now, Realm Royale’s regular players aren’t enough to keep it anywhere close to Steam’s top 25.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2018/08/17/realm-royale-steam-players-losing-interest/

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GroguPosted:

Never heard of this, didn't even know it was a game. Simply because Fortnite has taken over my life

LokePosted:

i have not heard of this game i want to check it out but fortnite is killing the game rn

AnhurPosted:

Good, HiReZ doesn't deserve anything. They have 2 games that don't even work properly. And what do they do? Release more skins and apologise to the community for a gamebreaking glitch that puts the game into Hotfix mode for 5-6 hours.

Then my game crashes every 2 seconds, but in response, they release more skins at $40+ a pop.

DeadLizardPosted:

I liked paladins and figured this would be an alright game. I would still like to play it myself, before I make judgement

ReevyPosted:

Doesn't surprise me at all

FibrilPosted:

I didn't like Paladins and I don't like Realm Royale. Even Fortnite is getting boring as hell. PUBG has been the only BR game I've been going back to.

JimboPosted:

Maze Really feel like they paid popular streamers to advertise the hell out of this.
But either way, I knew it was gonna die quick


For sure. All the big streamers just started playing it randomly and I doubt it's because they wanted to try it. Game was fun for a little but Fortnite is a lot more fun imo.

MazePosted:

iShane It was bad when it was out and still is bad imo.


For real, it always looked terrible and the article says that reddit is filled with nothing but complaints lmao. Sad days for a sad game.

iShanePosted:

It was bad when it was out and still is bad imo.

MazePosted:

coolbunny1234 That's a pretty tough number to come back from to be honest.

They will never get those numbers back. They will be lucky if they even get half of what the had on launch week. I don't see it staying in the rotation, especially since a lot of triple a games are coming out with their own BRs


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