Lost Ark is shaping up to be one of the biggest games in the industry by beating Cyberpunk 2077 to get into the position of 4th biggest game of all time on Steam. Lost Ark is a recently released MMORPG with hack-and-slash elements, developed by Smilegate and published by Amazon Games. It came out on March 11, 2022 on PC via Steam. The game was originally released in South Korea in 2019 and has just made its way to Europe and the United States. It is worth noting that Lost Ark is completely free-to-play, and paid versions were only an incentive to play a couple of days early and support the project.

In Lost Ark, players choose one of 15 characters divided into 5 classes with between two and four subclasses each. Every class has different playstyle, attacks, and abilities. Bard, for example, is a support mage that fights at a distance, Deathblade is a melee assassin specializing in high damage attacks, and Gunslinger is a ranged damage dealer with a focus on physical damage. These are only three of the several playable characters in-game. Players have a choice of picking a specific character and participating in both PvE (Player vs. Environment) and PvP (Player vs. Player) modes.

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Lost Ark just became Steam's 4th biggest game of all time, according to SteamDB on Twitter (via GameSpot). The game surpassed Cyberpunk 2077—the previous 4th place—with 1,059,881 players online at the same time. Lost Ark has also been a huge success on Twitch. During the game's head start launch, more than 1.3 million viewers were watching Lost Ark related content on Twitch. This game achieved all of that in just one day, which is very impressive and promising for Lost Ark's future going forward.

Steam DB keeps track of all things connected to Valve and the Steam platform. This third-party website shows how many players are enjoying playing a certain title. Users are able to sort the games by various filters like 24 hour peak or all-time peak, and they can track the highest number of players in a game at any given time.

Lost Ark has clearly been established as a success, and the game being in the top 10 most played games of all time after only a day is a huge achievement, especially since it beat games like Cyberpunk 2077, New World, Valheim, and Terraria to get there. It even came close to reaching the number two spot, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive only having 1,308,963 million players as an all-time peak. However, for all of its success, Lost Ark was nowhere near the first place spot, which is still held by PUBG with a stunning 3,257,246 million players.

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Source: GameSpot, SteamDB/Twitter