The newest free-to-play sensation has just performed a very stylish superhero landing on Steam and the initial numbers seem promising.
Marvel Rivals comes from NetEase and boasts a pretty impressive roster of iconic superheroes from the Marvel brand. It takes a lot of cues from the likes of Overwatch, which means it’s also entering a very competitive space.
And yet despite the waning popularity of the MCU and the sheer amount of competition it faces, it looks like Marvel Rivals is off to a good start. According to SteamDB, the game managed to hit a peak concurrent player count of 444,286 just after it launched. As I write this its about 2pm in the UK and it’s sitting at 257,810.
These numbers don’t include both Xbox and PlayStation where Marvel Rivals is also available. NetEase hasn’t provided any official player counts for console, although I imagine it would be safe to bet that the game has managed to hit over a million concurrent players across all platforms.
The positivity doesn’t end there either, as the game is already receiving thousands of Steam user reviews. Right now, it’s over 7,000 and growing, with a “Mostly Positive rating” which in this day and age of rough launches, server problems and more is kind of impressive. People seem happy with the the game. A lot of the reviews focus in on things like all the characters being unlocked from the start and Battle Passes being permanent rather than timed as major wins for the game.
I’m not usually into hero-shooters or even multiplayer in general these days, but I think I’m going to jump on and give it a whirl. After all, Spider-Man is my favourite hero, so I gotta go see what the Wall-Crawler can do, don’t I?