The launch of the Far Cry 5 shooter on Steam has become the most successful in the history of the franchise. The peak attendance of the game reached 92 thousand gamers. This is reported by the analytical platform GitHyp.
For comparison, the previous record among the franchise games on Steam belonged to Far Cry 3 with 23 thousand online players. Far Cry 4 and Far Cry: Primal gathered up to 17 thousand and 14.7 thousand people, respectively.
One-time audience of Far Cry 5 on Steam in the first 10 days after launch, GitHyp
In terms of the mass of the launch online, Far Cry 5 among Ubisoft games was second only to the online shooter The Division, which was played by 114 thousand gamers at the same time after its release.
In addition to the success of the game on Steam, Far Cry 5 has become the most popular spectacle on the Twitch streaming platform. On the day of release, 250 thousand people watched the streams of the game at the same time.
Far Cry 5 was released on PC and consoles on March 27.
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