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Steam: new zombie shooter of 12 years old predecessor struck

The release of Back 4 Blood is just under a month back and already shrink the active game numbers on Steam drastically. Surprisingly, his spiritual predecessor can pass by the new zombie shooter and beat it with it. And that, though he has been on the hump for a whole 12 years. What has happened there?

Back 4 Blood loses Steam player

Back 4 Blood celebrated his official release on the 12th of October and was able to present considerable 65,000 simultaneous players on Steam on the first weekend (Source: SteamDB). But the zombie shooter from Turtle Rock Studios seems to be able to maintain this success.

Meanwhile, the numbers of the PC players are shrunk to daily maximum values ​​of 25,000. An excerpt of the initial success is not uncommon. This course will be interesting if you see it compared to a very similar game.

The speech is from LEFT 4 Dead 2, which is happy to act as a spiritual predecessor of the new cooop shooter. This had recorded a scoring decline at the beginning of the beta with emergence of back 4 Blood, but has experienced a new upswing for the official release.

Already two weeks after the publication of the new Zombie Shooter, Left 4 Dead 2 overtakes this with currently daily highs of around 35,000 simultaneous players on Steam. And the 12 years after release.

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Why does Left 4 Dead 2 pass?

One reason for the revival of the 12 year old classic is likely to be in the recently taken Halloween Sale Action. Valve offered the game for cheap 1.63 euros and thus could attract many players. And that for the perfect time, because the interest in back 4 Blood has probably also styied on the predecessor.

From the statistics, it is not clear whether bored or disappointed players from Back 4 Blood are transferred to Left 4 Dead 2, or whether the popularity of Back 4 Blood has simply ensured a re-flaring of the predecessor.

In addition, it should be mentioned that these numbers make the PC and console players of the Xbox Game Pas S completely outward. There, the new Zombie slaughtered has been played for free in the subscription.

You want to enjoy many brand new games for a monthly fixed price? Then take a look at the offer of the Xbox Game Pass (Store: Xbox Store).

Maybe the loss of Steam players can be considered as natural decline, or the playing returns to the new Zombie shooter and find the better action in LEFT 4 Dead 2. As we rate the cooop shooter, you read in our test to back 4 Blood :

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