Anyone who likes action role-playing games inevitably and immediately thinks of Diablo 4. It is not only the most successful game in the history of Blizzard Entertainment, but also one of the biggest titles in this genre. But recently a brand new competitor is causing quite a stir and is definitely putting the top dog from Blizzard in trouble.
This competitor stands up to Diablo 4
It is an action role-playing game Last Epoch, which only recently left the long Early Access phase. The title of developer studio Eleventh Hour Games has only been available in its release version on Steam for a few days and is already making a lot of waves thereThis is particularly evident when you take a closer look at the current statistics.
At peak times there were crowds more than 264,000 players at the same time on Last Epoch's servers. The previous peak of 264,708 users came from yesterday, Sunday afternoon. This means that the action RPG not only beats its previous high of just over 40,000 simultaneously active players from the early access phase. It also leaves the genre competitor current not the slightest chance.
For comparison: Diablo 4 only has a peak of just over 28,800 users, which went into battle at the same time – although Steam is not the primary platform of Blizzard's action-RPG hit. This is also very popular Path of Exile does not come close to Last Epoch, this is the maximum value with almost 212,000 players.
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Big hype but bad ratings?
The considerable number of players suggests a huge euphoria, but at least in the ratings on Steam there isn't much of it to be felt. Last Epoch currently only has a “balanced” rating with only 59 percent positive reviews. The trend is even falling in the past few days increased negative reviews added. Above all the current server problem causes a lot of frustration among buyers, who sometimes cannot play Last Epoch at all due to the technical defects.
Those: Steamdb.info