{"id":829977,"date":"2025-12-10T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/hades-2-early-access-launch-on-steam-reaches-over-100k-concurrent-players-24-hours-after-launch"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:19:44","slug":"hades-2-early-access-launch-on-steam-reaches-over-100k-concurrent-players-24-hours-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hades-2-early-access-launch-on-steam-reaches-over-100k-concurrent-players-24-hours-after-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hades 2 early access launch on Steam reaches over 100k concurrent players 24 hours after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/hades-2-early-access-launch-on-steam-reaches-over-100k-concurrent-players-24-hours-after-launch.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/hades-2-early-access-review\">Hades 2<\/a> released in early access last night, and is already pulling in some impressive numbers on Steam for concurrent players. <\/p>\n<p>\nAt the time of writing, there are over 100,000 players making their way through Supergiant Games&#8217; first-ever sequel. It has eclipsed its predecessor, with the first Hades game currently holding a concurrent player record of 37,749 (although, it is worth noting that Hades was a timed-exclusive on the Epic Games Store, before it arrived on Valve&#8217;s PC storefront). <\/p>\n<p>\nAdditionally, it appears the launch of Hades 2 may eventually boost the concurrent player record of the first game. Figures on <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/charts\/?compare=1145350,1145360\">SteamDB<\/a> show that the first Hades recorded a peak of 36,043 players in the last 24 hours, closing in on its record from four years ago. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/hades-2-early-access-launch-on-steam-reaches-over-100k-concurrent-players-24-hours-after-launch\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/hades-2-early-access-launch-on-steam-reaches-over-100k-concurrent-players-24-hours-after-launch\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hades 2 released in early access last night, and is already pulling in some impressive numbers on Steam for concurrent players. At the time of writing, there are over 100,000 players making their way through Supergiant Games&#8217; first-ever sequel. It has eclipsed its predecessor, with the first Hades game currently holding a concurrent player record of 37,749 (although, it is worth noting that Hades was a timed-exclusive on the Epic Games Store, before it arrived on Valve&#8217;s PC storefront). Additionally, it appears the launch of Hades 2 may eventually boost the concurrent player record of the first game. Figures on SteamDB show that the first Hades recorded a peak of 36,043 players in the last 24 hours, closing in on its record from four years&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hades-2-early-access-launch-on-steam-reaches-over-100k-concurrent-players-24-hours-after-launch\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[259,8712,10628,75,59,1518,34,54,1404],"class_list":["post-829977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-action-adventure","tag-bird-view-isometric","tag-hades-2","tag-indie","tag-pc","tag-roguelike","tag-rpg","tag-single-player","tag-supergiant-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hades 2 early access launch on Steam reaches over 100k concurrent players 24 hours after launch | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hades 2 released in early access last night, and is already pulling in some impressive numbers on Steam for concurrent players. 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