February is shaping up to be a landmark month for highly anticipated games this year, with the recent launch ofDying Light 2 Stay Humanmaking a large contribution to it. Easter eggs have been found related to other titles that prominently feature zombies, a difficult nighttime mod has been reprised fromDying Light, and players are making their way throughDying Light 2’s supposed 500 hours of content.
Many comparisons have been made betweenDying Lightand its sequel now that it has released, such as the length of their main stories and the similarities between their parkour gameplay.Dying Light’s all-time concurrent player countreached 45,876. While admirable, its sequel’s statistics have since eclipsed its predecessor’s within a miniscule fraction of its own life-cycle. Recent statistics from the Steam database demonstrates how immensely popularDying Light 2’s launch has been.
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Dying Light 2currently sits as Steam’s 4th most played game with regard to current, 24-hour peak, and all-time peak player counts. Respectively,Dying Light 2’s Steam statistics at the time of this writing show that there are 188,472 current players, a 24-hour peak of 271,631, and an all-time peak of 274,983. These stats are remarkable, particularly becauseDying Light 2has only been out for three days.
Dying Light 2is succeeded on Steam byPUBG: Battlegroundsat 3rd,Dota 2at 2nd, andCounter-Strike: Global Offensiveat 1st. Rather, the Steam titles thatDying Light 2has narrowly dethroned areApex Legends, which features a higher all-time peak of 330,879 at 5th,Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duelat 6th, andGrand Theft Auto 5at 7th. Further, these are only numbers torepresentDying Light 2’s successon Steam; it is undetermined how well it has done so far on console platforms, but these stats are impressive nonetheless as they compare to other heavy-hitters on Steam.
Techland’s open-world zombie gameis said to receive support for 5 years post-launch. It is unclear if the previously reported 500 hours of content are attributed to this content rollout or if that content is already included in the base game. Regardless,Dying Light 2’s shelf-life may be extremely long, and it will be exciting to see if its concurrent player counts will continue to risk or peak once it has moved a bit farther from its launch date.
Dying Light 2is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
