TheResident Evil 4remake marked a new series high as its most successful Steam launch ever, smashing the previous record by a massive margin. This notable achievement indicates that the game’s commercial performance may match its critical response, which has been overwhelmingly positive, withreviewers praising theResident Evil 4remakeas a phenomenal experience that successfully modernizes Capcom’s classic with minimal compromises.
The series' simultaneous Steam player record has now been broken three times in the last four years, starting with theResident Evil 2remake which peaked at over 74,000 players in 2019.Resident Evil Villagecontinued pushing the PC popularity envelopeby boasting more than 106,000 concurrent Steam players two years later, with theResident Evil 4remake now managing to one-up that achievement.
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According to SteamDB data, Capcom’s latest game peaked at 140,240 simultaneous Steam players around 8am PST on March 24. TheResident Evil 4remake has been out for less than 24 hoursby the time it managed this feat. While most AAA games tend to peak in this metric on release day, seeing how the newResident Evilgame is still hovering around the 135,000 mark as of this writing, there might still be time for it to improve this record once fans in North and South America get off work. For context, all versions of the original game sold over 12 million copies as of late 2022, according to Capcom data, so the game already has a pretty large built-in audience of likely working fans who might yet add to its number of concurrent Steam players later today.
TheResident Evil 4remakeis currently among the top 10 most popular Steam games going by the concurrent player peak for the 24-hour period ending March 24. It ranks at number five, just aboveGrand Theft Auto 5, although well belowPUBG: Battlegrounds, which boasted about twice as many players as Capcom’s newest game during the observed period.
This massively successful launch appears to be just the start of Capcom’s roadmap, with the Japanese developer just announcing thefirst free DLC for theResident Evil 4remakeas part of its March 24 launch celebrations. That likely won’t be the only add-on to release, as some fan-favorite side content from the original game is still missing from the day-one version of the remake.
Resident Evil 4is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
