PlayStation multiplayer shooter Concord has suffered a terrible launch on Steam, where just 660 people played concurrently over the weekend at the game's peak. The last 24 hours have seen this number falling further still - now , with a daily peak of just 267 players. Concord is also available on PlayStation 5, of course, though it doesn't seem to have made a huge impact there, either.
Looking through Sony's PlayStation Store by "Best Selling" games finds Concord around 30-something places down. ( Black Myth: Wukong , predictably, is currently top.) After eight years in development , Concord has arrived to muted fanfare, in a landscape already saturated by live-service games, and in the same week as breakout hit Black Myth: Wukong.
Concord is the first game released by Firewalk, the PlayStation-owned studio founded by veterans of Activision and Bungie. It's a hero shooter live service with a £35 pricetag but no paid battle pass, with future seasons funded by the option to purchase additional cosmetic-only items. A mix of Guardians of the Galaxy-style sci-fi humour and Overwatch -style gameplay mechanics, the base game features six modes, 12 maps and 16 characters.
Firewalk has committed to expanding this over time - firstly in October when Season 1 arrives, and then again in both January and April 2025 when Season 2 and 3 arrive. "Spare a thought for poor Concord, a kind and earnest shooter sent out to die," Chris Tapsell wrote in Eurogamer's Concord impressions last week. ".