The most recent free-to-play sensation has simply carried out a really trendy superhero touchdown on Steam and the preliminary numbers appear promising.
Marvel Rivals comes from NetEase and boasts a fairly spectacular roster of iconic superheroes from the Marvel model. It takes plenty of cues from the likes of Overwatch, which suggests it’s additionally coming into a really aggressive area.
And but regardless of the waning reputation of the MCU and the sheer quantity of competitors it faces, it appears to be like like Marvel Rivals is off to an excellent begin. In accordance with SteamDB, the sport managed to hit a peak concurrent participant rely of 444,286 simply after it launched. As I write this its about 2pm within the UK and it’s sitting at 257,810.
These numbers don’t embrace each Xbox and PlayStation the place Marvel Rivals can be accessible. NetEase hasn’t supplied any official participant counts for console, though I think about it might be secure to wager that the sport has managed to hit over 1,000,000 concurrent gamers throughout all platforms.
The positivity doesn’t finish there both, as the sport is already receiving hundreds of Steam consumer evaluations. Proper now, it’s over 7,000 and rising, with a “Principally Optimistic score” which nowadays of tough launches, server issues and extra is form of spectacular. Folks appear proud of the the sport. A variety of the evaluations focus in on issues like all of the characters being unlocked from the beginning and Battle Passes being everlasting reasonably than timed as main wins for the sport.
I’m not normally into hero-shooters and even multiplayer on the whole lately, however I believe I’m going to leap on and provides it a whirl. In any case, Spider-Man is my favorite hero, so I gotta go see what the Wall-Crawler can do, don’t I?
