Marvel Rivals became the fourth most played online game on Steam among the 2024 releases
On December 6, Marvel Rivals, a team-based action game featuring Marvel heroes, developed by the Chinese company NetEase, was released on PC and consoles. According to the SteamDB service, shortly after its release, the Steam version of the project alone managed to attract over 444,000 concurrent players at its peak.
Marvel Rivals
This was enough for Marvel Rivals to secure fourth place in the list of the most popular new releases of 2024 on Steam. Here’s how the top 5 looks right now*:
1. Black Myth: Wukong — 2,415,714 players;
2. Palworld — 2,101,867 players;
3. Helldivers 2 — 458,709 players;
4. Marvel Rivals — 444,286 players;
5. Throne and Liberty — 336,300 players.
Additionally, Marvel Rivals ranked 25th in the list of projects with the highest online peak in Steam's history, placing between Among Us (447,476 players) and Sons Of The Forest (414,257 players).
It seems likely that on the weekend, the online presence of Marvel Rivals will grow even stronger, and the game will climb higher in the rankings.
Marvel Rivals Online on Steam
As for the reviews, by the time this news was written, Marvel Rivals had garnered 4.2 thousand reviews on Steam, of which 75% were positive. As a result, the game achieved a "mostly positive" rating on Valve's platform.
*We did not include Banana in the top list (with over 917,000 players online) because, as admitted by the project's own creators, most of Banana’s audience consists of bots, not real players.
