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If you look at the the top played games on Steam<\/a>, you might notice something new right at the top. Above the usual heavy hitters and longtime classics you\u2019ll spot Schedule I, an open-world, first-person drug-dealing sim developed by one guy that, as I write this, has over 340,000 concurrent players on Steam. <\/p>\n

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If you look at the the top played games on Steam, you might notice something new right at the top. Above the usual heavy hitters and longtime classics you\u2019ll spot Schedule I, an open-world, first-person drug-dealing sim developed by one guy that, as I write this, has over 340,000 concurrent players on Steam. 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