Today is the day Helldivers 2 achieves a higher Steam CCU than the F2P part of Halo: Infinite.
These are the all time Steam CCU peak for the Sony PS Studios games released on PC:
- Helldivers II 261,248
- God of War: 73,529
- Spider-Man Remastered: 66,436
- Horizon Zero Dawn: 56,557
- TLOU Part I: 36,496
- Days Gone: 27,450
- Spider-Man Miles Morales: 13,539
- Uncharted collection: 10,851
- Ratchet Rift Apart: 8,757
- Detroit: 8,222
- Helldivers 1: 6,744
- Death Stranding: 6,093
- Guns Up!: 2,277
- Journey: 1,757
- Predator Hunting Grounds: 1,504
- Beyond Two Souls: 1,346
- Heavy Rain: 747
- Sackboy: 610
- Everybody's Gone to the Rapture: 191
Regarding Sony's Bungie games, Destiny 2 reached last year its record with 316,750 Steam CCU. Helldivers II also achieved a higher all time Steam CCU peak than all Microsoft games studios with the exception of the F2P MP SKU of Halo Infinite. Some extra coop-ish shooters as reference:
- PUBG 3,257,248 (F2P)
- Counter-Strike GO/2 1,818,773 (F2P)
- Apex Legends 624,473 (F2P)
- Call of Duty 491,670
- Starfield 330,723
- Counter-Strike 319,586 (F2P)
- Destiny 2 316,750 (F2P)
- Dying Light 2 274,983
- Halo Infinite 272,586 (F2P)
- Helldivers II 261,248
- Team Fortress 2 253,997 (F2P)
- Payday 2 247,709
- The Finals 242,619 (F2P)
- Rainbow Six Siege 201,053
- Warframe 189,837 (F2P)
- Left 4 Dead 2 162,399
- Halo MCC 161,024
- Outriders 125,143
- Borderlands 2 124,678
- Insurgency 121,575
- Battlefield V 116,104
- The Division 114,228
- Remnant II 110,856
- Warhammer 40,000 Darktide 108,395
- Battlefield 2042 107,376
- Warhammer Vermintide 2 104,323
- Borderlands 3 93,820
- Payday 3 77,938
- Killing Floor 2 69,987
- Battlefield 1 53,714
- Payday 50,316
- Deep Rock Galactic 46,687
- Left 4 Dead 30,616
- Vermintide 24,700
- Killing Floor 24,107
- Borderlands 23,655
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 21,923
- Battlefield 4 12,425
- Star Wars Battlefront II 10,489
- Battlefield 3 1,412
- Battlefield 2 1,399
- Star Wars Battlefront 623
- Battlefield Hardline 279
It's also right now top 1 in Steam top sellers or trending. This is how things are a couple hours before the peak.
Regarding user reviews, Helldivers 2 started with a low score due to bug and complains about DRM (people seem to prefer pirated game and MP broken due to cheaters), but kept improving. As of now, Steam db numbers:
- Left 4 Dead 96.78%
- Deep Rock Galactic 96.02%
- Left 4 Dead 94.55%
- Killing Floor 93.37%
- Borderlands 2 92.85%
- Payday 91.58%
- Halo MCC 91.51%
- Helldivers 1 89.59%
- Borderlands 88.84%
- Payday 2: 88.78%
- Killing Floor 2 86.67%
- Warframe 85.99%
- Magicka (Arrowhead) 85.76%
- Rainbow Six Siege 85.06%
- Borderlands 3 84.00%
- Warhammer Vermintide 2 83.62%
- Remnant II 83.11%
- Destiny 2 79.98%
- Gauntlet (Arrowhead) 79.36%
- Warhammer Vermintide 78.59%
- Helldivers 2 77.71%
- Predator Hunting Grounds 75.19%
- Guns up! 72.50&
- Halo Infinite (F2P MP) 69.99%
- Gears 5 68.73%
- Halo Infinite (paid SP) 66.86%
- Warhammer 40000 Darktide 66.43%
- Outriders 65.51%
- Starfield 59.87%
Helldivers II achieved a higher all time Steam CCU peak than the whole catalog from PS Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda, EA, 2K, Rockstar, Ubisoft, Valve, WB, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Capcom, Sega, Koei Tecmo with only these following exceptions:
- Counter-Strike GO/2 (1,818,773, F2P)
- Dota 2 (1,295,114, F2P)
- Elden Ring (953,426)
- Hogwarts Legacy (879,308)
- CoD (491,670)
- Fallout 4 (472,962)
- Life is Strange 2 (468,717)
- GTAV (364,548)
- Starfield (330,723)
- Counter-Strike (319,586, F2P)
- Skyrim (287,411)
- Halo Infinite (272,586, F2P)