Another PC flop: Until Dawn underperforms on Steam with 2.5k CCU at launch. Hermen flees the country

[Gods&Monsters]

The verdict is in and it's not looking good for Until Dawn on PC

The peak is only 2,541 and number 22 on Steam

It's also getting review-bombed with a rating of 58.42%

Below 3k for a Day 1 AAA is a massive underperformance but for Sony this is one of the biggest flops. Worse than Ratchet (8,757), Returnal (6,691) and Uncharted (10,851). Even Hellblade 2 got 3,982.

What's particular with Until Dawn is that it's Day 1 on PC so the whole budget needs to be recouped on that version according to our experts Yuri and Mibu. There's no PS lifeboat in this case.

What's next for Hermen? Where is he hiding as his studios and IPs are sinking into irrelevancy and laughing material?

Stats for similar games by Supermassive:

To put things into perspective these are what other Supermassive games did on Steam.

The Quarry - 6349​

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope - 4997​

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan - 4518​

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes - 4578​

The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me - 3599​

 

[Etifilio]

and this is day one on PC, mind you

 

[Evilms]

 

[CrackmanNL]

Great news, the more PC players reject it is not a bad thing in my book. The execs love metrics, so these are good metrics for day one releases and shorter gaps.

I will say this is a title if picked up by the right streamer it can blow up with the new-gen, but that's very wishful thinking.

 

[SuperPotato]

Until Dawn Remake - AMD FSR 3.0 Frame Generation, Ray Tracing & HDR are not working on PC

Sony has just released Until Dawn Remake on PC and it appears that the PC version has numerous technical issues.

www.dsogaming.com

Another bad PC port

 

[Entropi]

More evidence that woke and anti-woke are only a different side of the same coin.

 

[SuperPotato]

More evidence that woke and anti-woke are only a different side of the same coin.

I used to lean more towards the anti woke side and followed guys like Endymion and Grummz.

Truth is, they're just as repetitive and annoying as these they/them idiots.

Both sides are just trying to force their crap on everybody.

It's like fascists vs communists.

 

[arvfab]

What's next for Hermen?

Probably Bahamas, Côte d'Azure is too cold for his yacht already.

 

[Plextorage]

How this game is a flop when it was huge success almost 10 years ago?

 

[Gods&Monsters]

How this game is a flop when it was huge success almost 10 years ago?

It's a full remake made from the ground up on Unreal and PC with a new studio. The budget restarts at 0.

They need to justify the price they paid and the years of development with these PC sales because the remake would not get made at all if it wasn't for the PC version.

The PS port is pure profit according to what was said earlier so that's fine.

 

[John Elden Ring]

It's an overpriced remake no one really wanted.

 

[Plextorage]

It's a full remake made from the ground up on Unreal and PC with a new studio. The budget restarts at 0.

They need to justify the price they paid and the years of development with these PC sales because the remake would not get made at all if it wasn't for the PC version.

The PS port is pure profit according to what was said earlier so that's fine.

I know that, yes. But when sales will be counted, it will counted as one always. Not specifically Remake or Remaster

 

[arvfab]

I know that, yes. But when sales will be counted, it will counted as one always. Not specifically Remake or Remaster

Hmmm no? Remake sales are never added to the original release ones. Didn't happen to the Resident Evil Remakes, didn't happen to TLOU Part 1 Remake, didn't happen to FF7, didn't happen to Demon's Souls.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

It's an overpriced remake no one really wanted.

It's a totally new game for PC. Day 1, not an old port. We have to stop making excuses.

I know that, yes. But when sales will be counted, it will counted as one always. Not specifically Remake or Remaster

So what? I'm talking about the budget of this project from Ballistic Moon. The same way Silent Hill 2 from Bloober is a separate project with his own goals for Konami.

 

[anonpuffs]

I used to lean more towards the anti woke side and followed guys like Endymion and Grummz.

Truth is, they're just as repetitive and annoying as these they/them idiots.

Both sides are just trying to force their crap on everybody.

It's like fascists vs communists.

exactly. people need to stop trying to one-up each other in the outrage wars and just be normal.

 

[Hatefield]

That is funny. I can't wait for the miles morales remaster to make these morons mad

 

[Plextorage]

So what?

So, Until Dawn didn’t flopped then. That's the point. But yes, this Remake isn't needed and it flopped on PC.

 

[John Elden Ring]

It's a totally new game for PC. Day 1, not an old port. We have to stop making excuses.


So what? I'm talking about the budget of this project from Ballistic Moon. The same way Silent Hill 2 from Bloober is a separate project with his own goals for Konami.

I understand a PC release date, but it would have been better if they just released a port and a remastered for $30.

What people really want are: Resistance, Killzone, Bloodborne, Infamous remakes.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

It's an overpriced remake no one really wanted.

How is it overpriced? And compared to what?

Also no one asked for games like Fall Guys, Among Us, Only Up etc. but they were still made, got released, and found big audiences. A game like Until Dawn, you'd think would be able to find a sizable audience on a place like Steam.

But when you have braindead things like Kabrutus and their "SBI Detector" blatantly going after games with not a hint of SBI's involvement, then you have something actively creating an environment that stifles any growth of an audience. And this is all on the platform SIE are desperate to see big growth on.

Once again, karma is a hell of a drug.

 

[Exicide]

Until Dawn Remake - AMD FSR 3.0 Frame Generation, Ray Tracing & HDR are not working on PC

Sony has just released Until Dawn Remake on PC and it appears that the PC version has numerous technical issues.

www.dsogaming.com

Another bad PC port

It's crazy the quality assurance on these ports is like nigh zero.