Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord storms to the head of Steam’s top ten - jeffersonmoratte

The Mount & Steel 2: Bannerlord release particular date dropped a week ago after organism brought forward away a day, and it looks like it's had a huge showtime week post-launch. The execute-RPG game's stormed its way to the top spot in this week's Steam lead ten.

That's reported to the inclination of the top ten games on Valve's platform for the workweek finish Apr 4 (via PCGamesInsider), which puts TaleWorlds' new medieval combat sim ahead of other past releases, Resident physician Evil 3 remake and Doom Eternal. Its popularity is perhaps non surprising, given fans of the series wealthy person been looking full-face to its arrival since it was announced way back in 2012, and following the last instalment in the series, Mount & Blade: Warband's launch a decade past.

IT's an impressive feat, considering the game ISN't even fully released just yet – Bannerlord's in Steam Early Access, and while it's currently "stable and playable," and features "all the main staples of the Climb on and Sword experience," the final establish isn't expected for "round a year".

The Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord player count so further is also pretty optic watering, with the game currently sitting in the number four blemish of the most-played games connected Steam (every bit of this story), according to Steam Charts.

This weekend, it set a apex actor count record of 248,034, though it's likely this has, at the least in set out, been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic around the international, which has been driving instrumentalist counts for various big titles up in recent weeks as players have been increasingly based at home.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is currently along sale if you're tempted to jump in yourself, and you can grab information technology here. You stool purchase it for 10% off if you grab IT before April 13 at 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET / 18:00 BST, and players who already possess a previous Mount & Blade game can get an extra 10% discount, too.

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