The peak online presence for The First Descendant could exceed 500,000 people
Nexon has announced that it is satisfied with the initial performance of The First Descendant. It also noted that half of the game's active audience is on the console version.
The First Descendant
Nexon did not disclose the number of players on consoles for The First Descendant. Instead, the company boasted that the recent peak number of concurrent players in Steam surpassed 260,000, most of whom are based in North America. Based on this figure, South Korean portal GameMeca speculated that at its peak, the total active player count for The First Descendant could have exceeded half a million people.
According to SteamDB, The First Descendant is currently the third* biggest game in terms of online player count on Steam in 2024. Only Palworld (2.1 million people) and Helldivers 2 (458.7 thousand people) had higher online numbers. At the same time, its rating is "mixed." Of the 42,200 reviews on Steam, only 51% are positive. Players criticize The First Descendant for aggressive monetization and lack of originality.
*We are not counting Banana, which has over 917 thousand people online, as a significant portion of the project's audience are bots.
