A new Marvel hero shooter is rocking Steam with 20 million players

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At the beginning of December 2024, Marvel Rivals, a new team shooter about Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man and Co., was released. Now the game has reached an impressive milestone on Steam. Meanwhile, the community is celebrating the high quality of Overwatch competition.

What kind of milestone is this? Those responsible at NetEase announced via X that they welcomed more than 20 million players in the first two weeks. Despite the Free2Play payment model, this is an impressive number.

While the ten-day all-time high is 480,990 concurrently active players (via steamdb.info), Marvel Rivals currently has almost 400,000 concurrently active players at its daily peak time. That’s usually enough for the top 5 on Steam (current – 8:51 a.m., on December 19, 2024 – 4th place behind Dota 2, PUGB and Counter-Strike 2).

Here is the launch trailer for Marvel Rivals:

Marvel Rivals: The launch trailer for the shooter with Marvel superheroes on PS5 and Steam

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“I’m having a lot more fun with it than I thought”

How does the community rate the milestone? In the associated discussion on Reddit, many players celebrate the high quality of Marvel Rivals and the success it deserves.

  • Jack_Sentry is excited about the future (via Reddit): “It will be interesting to see how the game develops in the long term, but it seems like they have a real winner on their hands.”
  • Tinkerer0fTerror reveals on Reddit: “My husband plays this every day. He is obsessed with Jeff, the Land Shark. And I have to admit, Jeff is adorable. I also really enjoy listening to the sounds Jeff makes on the TV.”
  • nmcorso47 writes on Reddit: “I’m having a lot more fun with this than I thought.”
  • Karakara16 sums up his experience on Reddit: “Just one more round and then I’ll go to bed…”
  • Karsa69420 is tired but happy (via Reddit): “Yeah, I’m shocked I’ve already put in 15 hours. Me and another guy are exhausted today because we stayed up until 2am playing.”

    • Marvel Rivals achieves something that Sony’s service shooter Concord would have liked to achieve. Instead, the servers went offline after just a few days. The game director behind the superhero spree has a clear opinion on why the competitor failed: Developer behind Marvel Rivals explains why Concord flopped but his game works

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