Stellar Blade Only Released On PC Yesterday, But It's Already One of Sony's Biggest Steam Launches Ever

The PC mentation of Stellar Blade lone launched yesterday, June 11, but it's already Sony's biggest single-player Steam motorboat ever.

Right now, the concurrent subordinate highest is astir 105,000, but that's the seventh all-time highest the crippled has acceptable since I started penning this story. There's nary uncertainty subordinate numbers volition proceed to climb, particularly arsenic we determination into the weekend.

By comparison, Ghost of Tsushima topped retired astatine 77,154 players, God of War peaked astatine 73,529, and Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered sports a highest of 66,436 players. In fact, the lone Sony-published crippled to person a higher concurrent grounds than Stellar Blade is Helldivers 2, which is, of course, a multiplayer game.

PC-specific features see AI upscaling via Nvidia DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 3, an unlocked framerate, Japanese and Chinese voiceover, ultrawide show support, higher solution situation textures, and DualSense enactment for haptic feedback and trigger effects.

The PC mentation was primitively portion locked successful 100+ countries, but is present disposable successful "over 250 regions." And yes, determination are mods. Dozens and dozens person popped up, with modders making each kinds of tweaks and buffs since the demo dropped a fewer weeks ago. Not each of them are harmless for work, though...

Stellar Blade has done truthful good for developer Shift Up that a sequel is already confirmed. The Sony-published enactment crippled launched to a affirmative effect backmost successful April 2024, with players saying its gameplay mixed elements of NieR: Automata and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

IGN's Stellar Blade reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: "Stellar Blade is large successful each of the astir important ways for an enactment game, but dull characters, a lackluster story, and respective frustrating elements of its RPG mechanics forestall it from soaring on with the champion of the genre."

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