Throne and Liberty – the most recent South Korean free-to-play fantasy MMO to get a western launch courtesy of Amazon Video games – is off to a powerful begin this week, hovering close to the highest of Steam’s concurrent charts (albeit nonetheless behind that infernal Banana recreation) regardless of combined critiques.
At present, Throne and Liberty – which guarantees exploration and “massive-scale fight” for “hundreds of gamers directly” throughout a “dynamic” open world – is Steam’s sixth most performed recreation, with 251K concurrent gamers in response to SteamDB. That places it simply behind Black Fantasy: Wukong, Banana, PUBG, and perennial Steam favourites Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2.
It is a robust begin for Throne and Liberty, however its early launch week peak of 326,377 concurrent gamers pales compared to Amazon’s different earlier releases. Misplaced Ark, as an example, managed an all-time excessive of 1.3m concurrents at launch in 2022, whereas New World noticed a peak concurrent of 914k gamers when it arrived in 2021. The important thing, in fact, might be sustaining participant curiosity in Throne and Liberty, which each Misplaced Ark and New World specifically have struggled to do – regardless of the latter’s current relaunch as New World: Aerturnum.
Throne and Liberty’s arrival hasn’t been with out incident both. The sport is presently rated Combined on Steam, with gamers dinging it for a complete vary of points – from virtually inevitable launch week servers woes to extra basic complaints, together with shallow gameplay design. Steam Deck and Linux gamers have additionally been pissed off by the arrival of Simple Anti-Cheat, rendering Throne and Liberty unplayable on these techniques – albeit seemingly quickly, with Rock Paper Shotgun reporting the problem now appears resolved.
All of the above solely applies to Steam, in fact; but when Throne and Liberty has an identical influence on consoles (it is also obtainable on Xbox Sequence X/S and PlayStation 5 with cross-play supported) Amazon will little doubt be desirous to shout about it quickly.
Throne and Liberty, maybe surprisingly given how a lot companies love the outdated model synergy stuff, is not one of many video games being immortalised in Amazon’s upcoming Secret Stage anthology collection – though the corporate’s New World: Aeternum does make an look, alongside the likes of Mega Man, Sifu, Pac-Man, Spelunky, and, er, Harmony.
