Just under four years after its release on PlayStation 4, God of War is making a resounding return to PC, allowing players to discover it, or rediscover it, in new guise. A few months before the release of the second opus, Ragnarök, players threw themselves into Kratos and Atreus' Norse Odyssey as soon as it launched on Steam.
The craze has taken on such proportions that the figures have continued to increase throughout the weekend, as shown so well by the data collected by the SteamDB site.
The ancient god of war leading an army of players
With the release of God of War on PC, Sony continues to expand its list of exclusive ports and intends to step up a gear in 2022. If the game was not developed in-house, it will still have It took two years of work for the Jetpack Interactive teams to bring it back to life on PC.
Towards the end of October, general impatience rose a notch with the publication of a first comparison between the PS5 and PC version of the title. After that, no doubt one of the PlayStation 4's biggest hits was going to wreak havoc on Steam when it officially launched.
This was indeed the case during the three days that have passed! A first base of players quickly swelled the numbers while two peaks were reached, Saturday and Sunday, with respectively 65 and 403 players connected simultaneously!
Faced with such a success, many then wondered if God of War: Ragnarök would benefit from the same preferential treatment when landing on PC. For the moment, and even internally, we don't know yet, because according to Cory Barlog, director of the first part, he has no idea.
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Sources : Eurogamer, SteamDB
