In line with Steam DB, Helldivers 2‘s participant depend has dropped by 90% since launch. A drop in participant depend is to be anticipated for any on-line sport in some unspecified time in the future after launch, however from what I’ve seen, the smaller participant base hasn’t harm how a lot enjoyable this sport is to play.

At its highest peak on Steam, Helldivers 2 had 458,709 gamers all on-line preventing for Tremendous Earth directly. That quantity has fallen over time; within the final week or so, the very best variety of concurrent gamers was 42,293. That’s roughly 10% of the sport’s concurrent participant peak, and whereas it’s not stunning for a number of totally different causes, I don’t imagine it’s hurting the expertise gamers get in-game all that a lot.

Helldivers 2 has fewer gamers however simply as a lot managed democracy

The decrease participant depend quantity is solely from Steam, and so whereas it won’t be a major increase, there are nonetheless all of the gamers on PS5 to contemplate. I’ve seen loads of folks speaking concerning the points that Helldivers 2 has had since launch, from gamers being locked out of the sport in the course of the first two weeks to complaints about Warbond high quality and, in fact, the PSN account debacle.

Helldivers 2 and Arrowhead Sport Studios have had a difficult time within the a number of months the sport has been reside. Nevertheless, regardless of all of it, gamers have endured. We pulled collectively to push again in opposition to the PSN account requirement, and everybody has been extremely vocal about updates inflicting points. I believe we’re all nonetheless reeling from what occurred to ricochet.

However loads of us are nonetheless right here. On the time of writing, we’ve acquired an absolute mess of a Main Order that requires us to coordinate as a neighborhood throughout a number of worlds in a number of sectors. It’s a logistical nightmare, however not solely are there sufficient of us to fill each mission with 4 Helldivers, we’re profitable.

The fantastic thing about how Helldivers 2‘s Main Orders and complex methods work is that Sport Grasp Joel can regulate the liberation price on a planet to maintain it consistent with what number of gamers are within the sport every week. The unique sport, which was launched in 2015, has an all-time Steam peak participant depend of 6,744, and also you want solely converse to somebody who performed that sport to know that it was all the time extremely pleasing.

Some on-line video games desperately want enormous participant numbers to make their worlds really feel full and lived in. Helldivers 2 isn’t a kind of video games since you solely see different gamers throughout missions after matchmaking with them. As somebody who performs every day, I don’t assume the sport is any much less pleasing.

The truth is, I believe the sport is in an important place as a result of everyone seems to be invested in finishing Main Orders and coordinating to hit them as exhausting as we are able to. Participant numbers will all the time rise and fall with new content material, however the best way Helldivers 2 feels to play isn’t going to vary until one thing rather more dramatic happens.