Dragon Age: The Veilguard Becomes Most Played Single-Player EA Game on Steam; Knocks Off Black Ops 6 From #1 Top Sellers Spot

It looks like BioWare’s follow up to the Dragon Age franchise is a massive hit at launch — at least on PC. Titled Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the latest entry in the fantasy RPG franchise has now established itself as the most played single-player game by publisher Electronic Arts (EA) on Steam.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Demolishes Star Wars: Jedi Survivor’s Steam Record

Dragon Age: The Veilguard managed to hit a 24-hour concurrent-player peak of 70,414 according to Steam Charts:

For comparison, Star Wars: Jedi Survivor managed to hit an all-time peak of 67,583 concurrent players on Steam, which it managed to hit during its launch window.

If that wasn’t impressive enough, Dragon Age: The Veilguard even managed to kick off Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 from Steam’s top-sellers list to become the #1 game on the storefront.

This feat by BioWare’s latest RPG is made even more impressive given that the Call of Duty franchise has managed to see record numbers on Steam with numbers not seen before outside of free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone’s launch. Activision even proclaimed Black Ops 6 as the “biggest” Call of Duty release ever, setting day-one records.

Given these achievements, we’re expecting EA to send out a press release touting Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s success. Will the publisher release sales figures? We certainly hope so, though we’re expecting estimates rather than specific figures.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the latest game in the franchise after a 10-year wait, as Dragon Age: Inquisition was released back in 2014 for the PS4, Xbox One, and even saw the light of day for PS3 and the Xbox 360.

At the time of this publication, The Veilguard is sitting at a “Strong” rating on Open Critic, and has an average score of 84 from games media outlets on Metacritic.

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