Throne and Liberty – the latest South Korean free-to-play fantasy MMO to get a western release courtesy of Amazon Games – is off to a strong start this week, hovering near the top of Steam’s concurrent charts (albeit still behind that infernal Banana game) despite mixed reviews.
Currently, Throne and Liberty – which promises exploration and “massive-scale combat” for “thousands of players at once” across a “dynamic” open world – is Steam’s sixth most played game, with 251K concurrent players according to SteamDB. That puts it just behind Black Myth: Wukong, Banana, PUBG, and perennial Steam favourites Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2.
It’s a strong start for Throne and Liberty, but its early launch week peak of 326,377 concurrent players pales in comparison to Amazon’s other previous releases. Lost Ark, for instance, managed an all-time high of 1.3m concurrents at launch in 2022, while New World saw a peak concurrent of 914k players when it arrived in 2021. The key, of course, will be maintaining player interest in Throne and Liberty, which both Lost Ark and New World in particular have struggled to do – despite the latter’s recent relaunch as New World: Aerturnum.
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