Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut Becomes PlayStation's Biggest Single 402m2d Player Launch on Steam

Ghost of Tsushuma has recorded a peak of 77,154 concurrent players on Steam, beating the all-time peak of God of War. 3p3j4k

Written by Manas Mitul | Updated: 21 May 2024 13:00 IST

Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut Becomes PlayStation's Biggest Single-Player Launch on Steam

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Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut includes the Iki island expansion
The game released on PC on May 16
Ghost of Tsushima on PC comes with the new PlayStation Overlay

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Sony's previous biggest single-player title, God of War.

SteamDB, a site that shows active player counts across games on Valve's storefront, God of War, which launched on PC in January 2022. The game has an all-time peak concurrent player count of 73,529 on Steam.

Ghost of Tsushima is seeing a healthy player count since its PC launch, climbing the charts on Steam. At the time of writing, the game as 32,024 concurrent players on the service. The game's success on Steam comes after its launch was marked by controversy over a requirement for s to link their PlayStation Network to Steam in order to play the game's Legends mode.

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Ahead of the game's release, Steam, Epic Games Store and GMG Sucker Punch confirmed that while the game's single-player campaign could be played without g up and linking a PSN , Steam players would have to link their PSN to access the Legends online multiplayer mode.

Ghost of Tsushima was also reportedly delisted from PC digital storefronts in over 170 non-PSN countries. It's worth noting that the game comes with the new PlayStation Overlay, which essentially brings the PS5 interface to PC and lets players access their PlayStation , friend list, Trophies and more. The overlay is an optional feature.

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While the open-world title is now Sony's biggest single-player launch on Steam, it remains far behind the top spot if live service titles are included in consideration. Sony's fastest selling PlayStation title, selling 12 million units in first 12 weeks since release.

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REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
Excellent visuals
Consistent PC performance
Detailed graphics settings

Bad
Formulaic open-world
Lack of ray-tracing

Read detailed Playstation Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut review

Genre Action-Adventure

Platform PlayStation 5 (PS5), PC: Windows

Modes Single-player, Multiplayer

PEGI Rating 16+

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