Despite only launching last week, Sony Santa Monica’s blockbuster God of War has already managed to become Sony’s highest-rated and most-played game on Steam to date.
At the time of writing, the game has an all-time concurrent players peak of 73,529. For context, Horizon Zero Dawn set the previous record with 56,557 players a year and a half ago, meaning that Kratos’ odyssey through the Nine Realms has smashed expectations.
God of War has also garnered a more positive reception than previous PC ports of PlayStation titles. While Horizon’s average rating of 93% on Steam is nothing to scoff at, Sony’s Norse mythology hit is currently sitting pretty with a whopping 97%.
God of War on Steam peaked even higher today for concurrent players. Its the first PlayStation Studios game to reach 70k+
God of War – 73,529
Horizon ZD – 56,557
Days Gone – 27,450This has sold a LOT of copies and likely pushed God of War over 20+ Million Units sold Lifetime pic.twitter.com/GtR8lH7K05
— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) January 16, 2022
There are plenty of other Sony games with positive ratings on Steam, too — Days Gone, which was recently in the news in relation to the sequel that never was, also has a respectable aggregate score of 91%, while Death Stranding is on par with Horizon Zero Dawn with 93%. Still, Kratos has unsurprisingly emerged victorious among Sony’s elite, tearing through the competition with lurching swings of his Leviathan Axe.
While God of War is arguably the most popular of Sony’s games to have been ported to PC to date, it’s worth noting that excitement for its sequel, God of War Ragnarok, has also likely played a huge part in its performance on Steam. Almost four years have passed since the original game came out, meaning it’s prime time for people to catch themselves up with a long-awaited replay — it certainly helps that high-end PCs have a way with making games look great, too.
Rumors pertaining to God of War Ragnarok suggest it could be set to launch in Sep. 2022, although Sony Santa Monica creative director Cory Barlog is unsure whether or not it, too, will come to PC.
If you’re on the fence about revisiting the Lake of Nine for yourself, be sure to check out our God of War PC review. For anyone who reckons they’ve already heard enough of Mimir’s tall tales, you’ll definitely find yourself something worth playing in our lists of the best PC games and best PS5 games.
Now there’s only one question that remains: Bloodborne on PC when?
Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.
