This weekend featured a major game release on Steam. Horizon Zero Dawn, one of the biggest game releases on the PlayStation 4, had its PC port released on Friday. It's the first major PS4 exclusive both developed and published by Sony to come to PC this generation and expectations for its release have been high. Only, much to everyone's surprise, Horizon Zero Dawn hasn't been the most popular release of the weekend. Instead, Horizon Zero Dawn was outmatched by Fall Guys.
In its Weekly Top Sellers list, Steam has declared Fall Guys the winner, though Horizon Zero Dawn has nothing to be ashamed of, of course, as it was listed in second place on Steam's Weekly Top Sellers list. Then, funnily enough, Fall Guys is listed again in the fifth position for the week, likely denoting sales for Fall Guys' Collectors Edition whereas first place is for the standard edition. It's certainly something both Devolver Digital and Mediatonic can be especially proud of.
Fall Guys remains in the first position on Steam's dynamic list of Global Top Sellers list, whereas the Weekly list is a once-a-week list published on Sundays. It just goes to show that Fall Guys is still selling especially well and that this isn't just a ranking based on Fall Guys being available on Steam for that much longer than Horizon: Zero Dawn.
That's not to say that Horizon Zero Dawn isn't proving to be a success story on Steam, of course, it's just that Fall Guys has an incredible amount of support that's only grown going into this weekend. Perhaps if the PC port had launched alongside Horizon Zero Dawn's PS4 launch, they'd be more comparable. As it is, however, Fall Guys' PC sales are bein invigorated by its availability as a game included with PS4 gamers' PlayStation Plus subscriptions.
For a more direct comparison, GitHyp's Steam player tracker has Fall Guys peaking at 123,000 concurrent players as of Saturday morning. That's almost double the number it saw on its launch day of August 4. Horizon Zero Dawn reached over 50,000 players when it launched on Friday and is continuing to hold those numbers at its peaks through the weekend. That's still a very impressive number, especially for a single-player game, but Fall Guys is clearly finding a special level of success.
In the longterm, both games are certain to be considered successes. Fall Guys has a bright future ahead of it. And hopefully, Horizon Zero Dawn's success on PC leads to other Sony first-party games coming to the platform as well.
Fall Guys and Horizon Zero Dawn are both available now on PC and PS4.