Free indie recreation identify mixup could also be inflicting big Steam participant numbers

Naming one thing is a humorous outdated enterprise. Get it proper and it’ll persist with individuals for many years, get it fallacious and also you’ll be wanting down the barrel of the forgetfulness gun. Or worse, somebody might even combine it up with one thing else. That could be what’s taking place within the case of The First Descendant and a small episodic journey recreation by the identify of, you guessed it, The Descendant.

Exterior of the identify there isn’t a lot to hyperlink the 2 titles, although each The First Descendant and The Descendant heart their themes across the finish of the world. The Descendent is an indie journey recreation which dates again to 2016 with the bigger title being an upcoming looter shooter. They’re each free, at the least partially, which undoubtedly doesn’t assist with the potential confusion some Gamers could also be experiencing.

In current weeks The Descendant has seen a surge in participant numbers, past something it’s ever seen in its complete lifespan. On Monday June 10, the sport was averaging roughly 1,000 gamers at anybody time. Not unhealthy for an eight 12 months outdated journey recreation, although its first chapter being free doesn’t damage its prospects. On Tuesday June 11, nonetheless, that quantity rocketed to a colossal 54,689 gamers. These numbers have but to drop both, on the time of writing 25,500 gamers are in-game in The Descendant.

Clearly caveats apply and there could also be nothing linking these two video games and it might merely be coincidence. That stated, the Summer time Sport Fest 2024 trailer for The First Descendant dropped on Friday, June 7 – simply a few days earlier than the spike in visitors for The Descendant. It doesn’t appear outdoors of the realm of chance that the stream of gamers flowing in direction of the journey recreation have been merely on the lookout for The First Descendant.

In fact there could be different causes. Notable amongst some opinions for The Descendant level out that it’s a simple option to earn a number of Steam playing cards, whereas others are simply strings of numbers so could level to one thing altogether extra fishy occurring. The Steam boards don’t shed any gentle on the topic both, with just some small bafflement on the participant numbers.

Both manner, by all accounts The Descendant is a sturdy and intriguing journey recreation and is nicely price trying out, particularly as the primary chapter is free. You’ll be able to head over to Steam to have a look. In case you, too, are right here on the lookout for data on the bigger recreation – The First Descendant launches on Tuesday July 2 and you may add it to your wishlist right here.

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