With Back 4 Blood‘s divisive beta and hype for the new $60 game dying down, Valve made the brilliant decision to have a Halloween sale and discount their 12-year-old multiplayer zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead 2, from $9.99 to just $1.99 – resulting in L4D2‘s player count jumping up to a peak of 38k players over the weekend.Īlthough the 80% discount certainly helped quickly put Left 4 Dead 2 back on top, the game’s player base has been more active in 2021 than any other period over the past 6 years with a peak of 24k players online just last weekend before the sale started.Ĭompared to Left 4 Dead 2‘s 97% positive feedback and peaks of over 100k concurrent players on Steam, Back 4 Blood hasn’t quite lived up to its predecessor’s legacy. The spiritual successor to the Left 4 Dead series from the same developers, Back 4 Blood‘s launch was Turtle Rock’s most successful new IP since parting ways with Valve - more than doubling the launch numbers of their last triple-A game, Evolve, back in 2015.īut since debuting in Steam’s top 10 most played games this October, Back 4 Blood has seen its player count decline by more than half – dropping to a peak of only 30k players over this past Halloween weekend when it should have performed much better. Just a little over two weeks ago, Turtle Rock Studios’ launch of their new team-based zombie shooter, Back 4 Blood, brought in an impressive peak of 66k concurrent players on Steam.
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