Street Fighter 6 is already the most popular fighting game on Steam
Just hours after Capcom’s Street Fighter 6 launched, it’s already become the most popular fighting game on Steam. Twitter user Benji_Sales first spotted the numbers on SteamDB, which reached significantly higher heights than other hits such as Mortal Kombat 11 and even the popular Dragon Ball FighterZ.
SteamDB shows that, at the time of publication, Street Fighter 6’s concurrent player count is hovering at roughly 62,000. That’s down slightly from the peak of 66, 317, which SteamDB also records as Street Fighter 6’s top 24-hour peak – except it hasn’t even been 24 hours since the game launched.
Street Fighter 6 has just SMASHED the All-Time concurrent players of every Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, or Tekken game on Steam
All-Time Peak
• Street Fighter 6 – 64,000+
• Mortal Kombat 11 – 35,147
• Tekken 7 – 18,966
• Mortal Kombat X – 15,743
• Street Fighter V- 14,783 pic.twitter.com/CtlpZnxkSy— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) June 2, 2023
Mortal Kombat 11’s all-time peak is 35,000, while Dragon Ball FighterZ had 44,300 players at its height, and Guilty Gear Strive peaked at 31,000
Meanwhile, Street Fighter 5’s all-time peak was around 14,000, so this a significant achievement for Capcom’s series.
It’s also not entirely surprising. The fighting genre is notoriously unforgiving, and while Street Fighter is often less complex than its competitors, the barriers for entry were still high in earlier games. Capcom designed Street Fighter 6 as a newcomer-friendly entry, complete with simplified “modern” controls and a robust story mode that doesn’t require going online at all.
The publisher has also enjoyed a string of recent hits, with Resident Evil 4 remake surpassing all others in the horror game series on Steam and helping the company reach record profits during its previous fiscal year.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF