On December 6th, Marvel Rivals—a team-based action game featuring Marvel heroes, developed by the Chinese company NetEase—was released on PC and consoles. According to SteamDB, shortly after its release, the Steam version of the game alone managed to peak at attracting over 444,000 concurrent players.
This was enough for Marvel Rivals to secure the fourth spot in the list of the most popular 2024 releases on Steam. Here's what the current top 5 looks like*:
1. Black Myth: Wukong — 2,415,714 players;
2. Palworld — 2,101,867 players;
3. Helldivers 2 — 458,709 players;
4. Marvel Rivals — 444,286 players;
5. Throne and Liberty — 336,300 players.
Additionally, Marvel Rivals ranked 25th in the list of games with the highest concurrent player count in Steam's history, positioned between Among Us (447,476 players) and Sons Of The Forest (414,257 players).
It's likely that over the weekend, Marvel Rivals will see even higher online numbers, potentially rising in the rankings.
As for reviews, at the time of writing, Marvel Rivals has amassed 4.2 thousand reviews on Steam, with 75% of them being positive. As a result, the game has achieved a "mostly positive" rating on the Valve platform.
*We have not included Banana in the top list (over 917,000 concurrent players) as, according to the project authors themselves, the majority of Banana's audience consists of bots, not real players.