Foamstars has lost nearly 95% of its player base

[John Elden Ring]

Despite receiving a strong initial burst of PS Plus subscribers when those Foamstars trophies arrived day one on the service back in February 2024, it seems Foamstars' PS Plus player count has seemingly been in freefall ever since. Now, two months later, it seems players have all but abandoned Foamstars for other PS5 multiplayer games with the shooter having lost over 94% of its initial PS Plus player base.

• Foamstars debuted with more players in its first week than Helldivers 2
• However, Foamstars has since lost over 94% of its PS5 and PS4 player count
• The Square Enix shooter has since dropped out of our top 200 PlayStation Chart

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[Vertigo]

No way I’d trust this data. Don’t think it’s been successful by any metric but trophy trackers are so bogus.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

No way I’d trust this data. Don’t think it’s been successful by any metric but trophy trackers are so bogus.

I don't even need to trust the data, in our hearts we all know the game is on its way to being abandoned with almost nobody playing it.

 

[reziel]

I mean hate to say it but it's a given that this would happen. It's a Splatoon knock off and Square doesn't have a good track record for live service games really. Marvel Avengers, Outriders, and Babylons Fall didn't really fare well. At this point their better off just sticking to single player titles. This just provesits not easy to successfully launch and keep success in live service titles.

 

[KvallyX]

 

[Zzero]

I mean hate to say it but it's a given that this would happen. It's a Splatoon knock off and Square doesn't have a good track record for live service games really. Marvel Avengers, Outriders, and Babylons Fall didn't really fare well. At this point their better off just sticking to single player titles. This just provesits not easy to successfully launch and keep success in live service titles.

I honestly thought it would do okay. Japan is totally fine with blatant ripoffs and as a Switch exclusive a lot of PS owners don't have access to it. As far as I can tell there are legitimate gameplay differences too.

 

[quest4441]

this is one of those $20-30 million project for new hires that was to meant to keep them busy while the adults worked on actual good games

 

[Danja1187]

I honestly thought it would do okay. Japan is totally fine with blatant ripoffs and as a Switch exclusive a lot of PS owners don't have access to it. As far as I can tell there are legitimate gameplay differences too.

This game never stood a chance in Japan. They didn't even care to have actual Japanese voiceovers in the game at launch. A total lazy effort all around

 

[Systemshock2023]

this is one of those $20-30 million project for new hires that was to meant to keep them busy while the adults worked on actual good games

Should have remastered vagrant story instead.

 

[Zzero]

This game never stood a chance in Japan. They didn't even care to have actual Japanese voiceovers in the game at launch. A total lazy effort all around

Do the characters actually say anything? I thought a Japanese team made the game?

 

[Gediminas]

Helldivers ate its lunch.

 

[TubzGaming]

 

[Box]

This game had like 4 maps and 3 game mods, it got old very quick and every map had the same Vegas theme.

There was also zero story at launch