And a boatload of them are playing New World. Concurrent players aren't a scientific measure of popularity and sales (at times thousands of those players have been idling in long server queues), but it's a useful basic indicator of what people are playing right now. It should register a higher number this weekend, when the greatest number of people are logged into Steam. That's the most of any new game on Steam in 2021.
New World has drawn 801,642 simultaneous players today, its fourth day online.
