{"id":885837,"date":"2025-12-21T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/helldivers-2-loses-90-of-its-pc-player-base-in-just-five-months"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:00:13","slug":"helldivers-2-loses-90-of-its-pc-player-base-in-just-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/helldivers-2-loses-90-of-its-pc-player-base-in-just-five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 loses 90% of its PC player base in just five months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/helldivers-2-loses-90-of-its-pc-player-base-in-just-five-months.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Arrowhead&#8217;s fantastic alien-shooter Helldivers 2 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/helldivers-2-now-playstations-fastest-selling-game-ever\">PlayStation&#8217;s fastest-selling game ever<\/a>, but despite its initial success, Steam numbers continue to dwindle, plummeting to around 10 per cent of its all-time concurrent Steam peak of 458,709 players.<\/p>\n<p>As Victoria reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/helldivers-2-sees-huge-drop-in-player-numbers-since-release\">at the end of May<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/553850\/charts\/#3m\">SteamDB<\/a> showed Helldivers 2&#8217;s peak at that time had dropped 64 percent to 166,305.<\/p>\n<p>Today, that has dropped to 35 percent again, falling to a 30-day average of 41,860 concurrent players on Steam (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paultassi\/2024\/06\/29\/after-initial-success-helldivers-2-has-lost-90-of-its-players-with-no-signs-of-recovery\/\">Forbes<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/helldivers-2-loses-90-of-its-pc-player-base-in-just-five-months\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/helldivers-2-loses-90-of-its-pc-player-base-in-just-five-months\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrowhead&#8217;s fantastic alien-shooter Helldivers 2 is PlayStation&#8217;s fastest-selling game ever, but despite its initial success, Steam numbers continue to dwindle, plummeting to around 10 per cent of its all-time concurrent Steam peak of 458,709 players. As Victoria reported at the end of May, SteamDB showed Helldivers 2&#8217;s peak at that time had dropped 64 percent to 166,305. Today, that has dropped to 35 percent again, falling to a 30-day average of 41,860 concurrent players on Steam (thanks, Forbes). 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