On October 8, DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO became available to owners of premium editions. According to the SteamDB service, its peak online players on Steam soon exceeded 91 thousand people.
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
This was enough for the game to earn the title of one of the most popular fighting games on the platform. Only the free-to-play MultiVersus previously managed to attract more simultaneous players — 153.4 thousand. Among paid fighting games, DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO is the undisputed leader.
Top 10 fighting games by online players on Steam*:
1. MultiVersus (free-to-play) — 153,433 people;
2. DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO — 91,005 people;
3. Street Fighter 6 — 70,573 people;
4. Tekken 8 — 49,977 people;
5. DRAGON BALL FighterZ — 44,303 people;
6. Mortal Kombat 1 — 38,129 people;
7. Mortal Kombat 11 — 35,147 people;
8. Brawlhalla (free-to-play) — 34,816 people;
9. Guilty Gear -Strive- — 31,156 people;
10. Tekken 7 — 18,966 people.
Additionally, DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO ranked first in online player numbers among games developed by Spike Chunsoft on Steam and third among games published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Within the publisher's portfolio, only Dark Souls III (129.9 thousand people) and Elden Ring (953.4 thousand people) showed higher online numbers.
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO online on Steam
The full release of DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO is set for October 11. After this, its online numbers are expected to rise even further.
*Many games on Steam have the "fighting" tag due to having elements of this genre: from NARAKA: BLADEPOINT to For Honor. Since not all of them are pure fighting games, we decided to exclude debatable entries from the list.