Space is having a bit of a moment. After years of the empty regions between planets feeling like a billionaire's playground, the folks at NASA are bringing back the good vibes with the Artemis II launch. Meanwhile, Project Hail Mary is taking space exploration to big box office heights. And all the while, there's been an unexpected beneficiary of all this space love: Kerbal Space Program, which just reached its biggest Steam player count since launch.
Kerbal Space Program reached a peak of 11,890 concurrent players on Sunday, April 5, as SteamDB shows. That's the biggest peak since the game's 1.0 launch in 2015, and a massive increase over the past few years. It had been reaching daily peaks of around 3,000-4,000 concurrent players, but those averages started rising dramatically around the Artemis II launch on April 1.
