Left 4 Dead’s spirit lives on…
Back 4 Blood, developed by Turtle Rock Studios, is the spiritual successor of the historic Left 4 Dead franchise adopting many of the same mechanics. It seems Left 4 Dead’s footprint is ever-lasting as Back 4 Blood has picked up right where its predecessor left off.
The studio has just revealed that the game has seen more than six million players since its launch on October 12.
That figure comes from a tweet shared by the official Back 4 Blood Twitter account (below), which simply announces that pretty hefty figure and thanks to players – sorry, “Cleaners” – for their hard work battling the Ridden so far. It’s not clear how that figure breaks down by platform, but we do have a sense of how the game’s faring on Steam, at least.
The co-op game’s 24-hour peak player count is sat at just over 32k as of writing, going by SteamDB’s data, which puts it in the top 35 games played on Valve’s platform today by that metric.
The young bull Back 4 Blood still hasn’t reached the heights of its master just yet, at least not in terms of concurrent player count. Back 4 Blood’s peak concurrent player count as it stands is sitting at 65,987, set 11 days ago. Left 4 Dead’s, on the other hand, was a whopping 162,399, set eight years back. It must be mentioned that this isn’t truly a fair statistic, though, as Left 4 Dead 2 was gifted by Valve as a free Christmas present to fans the day before that record was set.
Back 4 Blood’s Steam figures don’t account for all PC players, too, with the game also being available for those based on our home platform via Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Here’s a trailer if you’re thinking of diving in and want to get a flavour of what’s in store:
October has seen some big next-gen titles being released outside of Back 4 Blood, including FIFA 22, Far Cry 6. You can purchase both of these titles, as well as pre-ordering Call of Duty Vanguard, from our Go2Games website.
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