{"id":236376,"date":"2025-10-03T01:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T01:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/?p=792156"},"modified":"2025-10-03T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T01:56:37","slug":"biomutants-day-one-steam-numbers-already-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/biomutants-day-one-steam-numbers-already-impressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomutant\u2019s day one Steam numbers already impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/biomutants-day-one-steam-numbers-already-impressive.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/biomutants-day-one-steam-numbers-already-impressive.jpg' alt='Biomutant' title='biomutant_main_art_crop' width='600' height='507'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s only been out for a day, but already <strong>Biomutant<\/strong> has attracted some impressive player numbers &ndash; and that&rsquo;s just on <strong>Steam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-792156\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/05\/25\/biomutant-unlock-times-pc-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-xbox-series-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yesterday&rsquo;s launch<\/a>, it&rsquo;s clear that the world has a soft spot for Experiment 101&rsquo;s&nbsp;open-world, post-apocalyptic RPG. Something about the free-form kung-fu combat has certainly drawn people in, with <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/597820\/graphs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SteamDB<\/a> registering 55,048 players at the game&rsquo;s peak yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Once you add those numbers to however many units publisher THQ Nordic shifted on other platforms, it&rsquo;s likely we&rsquo;ll see the game chart quite well when the rankings are released next week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MPr8P40ARDo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The game hasn&rsquo;t done too badly then, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/05\/24\/biomutant-reviews-scores-pc-ps4-xbox-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given the mixed reviews<\/a> we saw the first game from the fledgling developer pick up ahead of its launch.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think Biomutant is a great game, but it&rsquo;s a game that is far from a complete disaster and one that still manages to consistently offer a good time,&rdquo; said our own Tom Orry in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/05\/24\/buy-biomutant-review-impressions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his definitely-not-a-review of the title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re keen to hold off on picking up the game until it has dedicated PS5 and Xbox Series X\/S upgrades, you may be waiting a while. The game will be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/05\/20\/biomutant-ps5-xbox-series-x-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">playable new consoles via backwards compatibility at launch<\/a>, but &ldquo;sometime in the near-ish future&rdquo; a native version for new-generation hardware is coming.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for anyone eager to play on Stadia or Switch; something may happen eventually, but not any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For now, we are pinpoint-focussed on executing an awesome release on May 25 2021,&rdquo; the developer has said, but more platforms could come later. &ldquo;Only time will tell&rdquo; if the game gets ported elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/05\/26\/biomutant-steam-concurrent-players-launch\/\">Biomutant&#8217;s day one Steam numbers already impressive<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\">VG247<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2021\/05\/26\/biomutant-steam-concurrent-players-launch\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s only been out for a day, but already Biomutant has attracted some impressive player numbers &ndash; and that&rsquo;s just on Steam. After yesterday&rsquo;s launch, it&rsquo;s clear that the world has a soft spot for Experiment 101&rsquo;s&nbsp;open-world, post-apocalyptic RPG. Something about the free-form kung-fu combat has certainly drawn people in, with SteamDB registering 55,048 players at the game&rsquo;s peak yesterday. Once you add those numbers to however many units publisher THQ Nordic shifted on other platforms, it&rsquo;s likely we&rsquo;ll see the game chart quite well when the rankings are released next week. Watch on YouTube The game hasn&rsquo;t done too badly then, especially given the mixed reviews we saw the first game from the fledgling developer pick up ahead of its launch. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/biomutants-day-one-steam-numbers-already-impressive\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23,259,1688,2190,79,43,25,26,59,34,488,609,54,156,4276,2024,485,56],"class_list":["post-236376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action","tag-action-adventure","tag-biomutant","tag-experiment-101","tag-fantasy","tag-headline-a","tag-hot","tag-news","tag-pc","tag-rpg","tag-sales","tag-sci-fi","tag-single-player","tag-steam","tag-thq","tag-thq-nordic","tag-valve","tag-videos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Biomutant\u2019s day one Steam numbers already impressive | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&rsquo;s only been out for a day, but already Biomutant has attracted some impressive player numbers &ndash; 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