LEGO Horizon Adventures falls behind Concord and Sackboy in peak CCU, worst Steam game launch for Sony
On November 14, Sony Interactive Entertainment launched LEGO Horizon Adventures, a Lego-themed reimagining of the first game in the Horizon series. Let’s take a look at its early metrics on Steam.
LEGO Horizon Adventures is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC. It received positive to mixed reviews from critics, with an average Metascore of 71/100.
Since consoles are closed ecosystems, the only visible metrics are on Steam. At the time of writing, there are just 32 user reviews, with 81% of them being positive, so it is too early to draw conclusions about player reception.
According to SteamDB, LEGO Horizon Adventures peaked at 602 concurrent users. As in the case with other PlayStation games, it is not available in over 170 countries due to the mandatory PS Networking account linking. However, results are still quite poor compared to other titles in the publisher’s portfolio on Steam.
In terms of peak CCU, LEGO Horizon Adventures is only above Everybody’s Gone to the Rutpure, an indie adventure game published by Sony in 2016.
When looking at the company’s first-party releases, LEGO Horizon Adventures ranks last, behind the likes of Sackboy: A Big Adventure (610 CCU) and Concord (697 CCU).
The main installments in the series, Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, peaked at 56.5k and 40.4k concurrent users, respectively. The recently released remaster of the first game has a peak of 2,538 CCU.
Below are the top 10 PlayStation games on Steam by peak concurrent players:
- Helldivers 2 — 458.7k CCU
- Ghost of Tsushima — 77.1k CCU
- God of War — 73.5k CCU
- Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered — 66.4k CCU
- Horizon Zero Dawn — 56.5k CCU
- Horizon Forbidden West — 40k.4k CCU
- The Last of Us Part I — 36.4k CCU
- God of War Ragnarök — 35.6k CCU
- Days Gone — 22.9k CCU
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales — 13.5k CCU
LEGO Horizon Adventures is made by Guerrilla Games in partnership with UK-based co-development company Studio Gobo.
Although the game may have more players on consoles, early metrics on Steam, both in terms of reviews and peak CCU, don’t look promising. We probably won’t get any official figures from Sony, so it will be interesting to see how LEGO Horizon Adventures will perform in charts.
