Two of the biggest new games came late in 2025, with Battlefield 6 launching in early October and ARC Raiders dropping at the end of that month. But while both titles were massively successful across Xbox, PC, and PS5 in their first several weeks of availability, player counts and the Steam charts have begun to tell a different story as we've moved into the new year.
Presently, Battlefield 6 — a game that peaked at 747,440 Steam players at launch according to SteamDB data — only has 55,483 soldiers deployed into its digital battlegrounds. In fairness, it is Monday morning as I write this, but even so, the large-scale FPS has struggled to hit 100K players at peak hours, recently averaging 85K-100K at that time.
