Curiosity in vampire-hunting co-op shooter Redfall has dwindled to the extent that the sport’s concurrent Steam participant rely is now repeatedly dropping to single digits. At instances, the variety of gamers has been so low that there aren’t even sufficient folks to fill a single full four-player co-op crew.
What’s extra, it appears as if Redfall has hit a single-player rely sooner or later day by day since September 22 – that is greater than two weeks (through VGC). The truth is, at time of writing, the sport has solely 9 gamers in keeping with SteamDB. It is price noting, nevertheless, that, though these figures paint a grim image, they don’t account for gamers on Xbox Recreation Move or these on Xbox Sequence X|S consoles.
Arkane Austin’s newest providing was poorly acquired by followers and critics. Again in Could, we known as it “one of many worst video games of the 12 months“, however we weren’t alone in our disappointment. Even Xbox head Phil Spencer made it clear that he was dissatisfied by Redfall, too. Allegedly, even Redfall’s builders themselves had been secretly hoping that Microsoft would cancel it.
Regardless of all of this, Bethesda Softworks’ head of publishing Pete Hines has made a dedication to not abandon Redfall, stating that “we will get it to be a superb recreation […] We’re all the time in a means of studying, in order that’s not new for us. We do not like failing to fulfill our gamers’ expectations.”
Fallout 76, additionally revealed by Bethesda had a equally rocky launch earlier than finally stabilizing and growing its personal distinctive id and attraction. Hines was eager to attract a comparability between post-apocalyptic multiplayer RPG Fallout 76 and Redfall, acknowledging that the previous’s launch was “not flawless” and that “Redfall is not any completely different for us.”
That mentioned, although Fallout 76 was rife with points at launch, even at its lowest the sport nonetheless boasted hundreds of gamers at any given second whereas Redfall, by comparability, appears to have grow to be a ghost city.
Redfall might have been a flop, however our checklist of the greatest co-op video games is stuffed with sensible titles, as is our information to the greatest horror video games.
