PlayStation's second biggest hit on PC. Great ratings and crowds on Steam: this is how Stellar Blade's release looks like
The release of Stellar Blade on Steam has been a great success. The gamr is getting overwhelmingly positive reviews and cranking out record activity results.
Yesterday, Stellar Blade was released on PC, which is a port of last year's hit from PS5. The PC release can now be considered a great success.
- A few hours ago, Stellar Blade set a record for activity on Steam with a level of 99,980 players playing simultaneously. Later, the result finally sured the mark of 100,000 players simultaneously (108,000 and counting).
- Such a result makes the game the second biggest success among all titles released under the PlayStation Publishing label. The previous record holders were Ghost of Tsushima (77,154 players simultaneously) and the unbeaten Helldivers 2 (458,709 players).
- Stellar Blade is also receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews. On Steam, 96% of reviews are positive.
- Players are praising not only the game itself, but also the quality of the PC version, which is said to be exceptionally well optimized.
Stellar Blade - what's new on PC
The PC version of Stellar Blade offers a range of graphical enhancements, including the removal of the frame rate limit. The game also s Nvidia DLSS 4, DLAA, and AMD FSR 3 technologies. PC s can also enjoy for ultrawide screens and the option to enable enhanced 4K textures.
Compared to last year's PS5 edition, the PC version also includes an extra boss to beat, and if you defeat it, you'll get a new costume as a reward. In total, the PC edition introduces 25 additional costumes, 9 accessories, as well as additional poses and music tracks.
The devs promised that all the new content prepared for the PC version would be added for free to the PlayStation 5 release, and they kept their word. The console version received update 1.011 last night, containing all the additional elements from the PC edition.
