Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Games' much lauded and most recent entry in theRed Deadseries, saw arecord-breaking jump for concurrent players on Steamthanks to a recent sale on the platform.
99,993 Concurrent Players Is Now The New Record To Beat
For context, Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) originally launched on consoles on July 14, 2025.
Rockstar’s Western-themed action-adventure game didn’t even release on Steam until over a year later onDecember 5th, 2019, when it hit a peak concurrent player count of55,269.
Rockstar Games hasnot officially announced another title in the series, nor is there a current television or film adaptation of the games to suddenly draw such impressive numbers of players back to the game by the wagon.
The reason for the sudden influx of players can be attributed to a recent Steam sale that saw Red Dead Redemption 2 attain a75%discount, making the storied title reach its lowest-ever price point of $14.99 USD for the base edition on the sale-friendly PC platform.
At the time of writing, Red Dead Redemption 2 is the 9th highest-rated video game onMetacritic,and according to tracking siteHowlongtobeat.com, players, on average, spend about78 hours on the gameacross all listed playstyles.
There is a precedent for this sort of thing, as generous sales and deep discounts have been noted to help even badly received and critically panned games reach unforeseen heights.
The recent sale that saw RDR2’s player count shoot up to nearly100,000 peak concurrent playersis part of a general sale onRockstar Gameson the Steam games platform.
According to thesetracking websites,the game’s previous peak occurred in November 2023, when the record was77,655concurrent players.
Last week, when the Rockstar Games sales on Steam began, the 2023 record had already been topped with a peak of86,717concurrent players.
With so many players either saddling up as Arthur Morgan for the first time, or joining Dutch’s colorful crew once again, time will tell if this new record will be broken or if it will stand the test of time until Rockstar Games' next entry in the series eventually gallops along to shatter it.
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