With Marvel Rivals, a new hero shooter is on the market, and it's holding its own quite well at launch. The player numbers look excellent at the moment.
Not only, which also applies to the new hero shooter Marvel Rivals from NetEase. The action title, which relies on numerous playable Marvel heroes, has gotten off to a perfect start.
Within the first 24 hours, Marvel Rivals reached a peak of over 444,000 simultaneous gamers on Steam alone. This value has since been increased to 451,018, which means that Marvel Rivals is also in the top 5 most played games on Steam.
At the same time, the hero shooter is also becoming one of the most successful free-to-play titles on Steam. And: Marvel Rivals is also preparing to seriously take on Blizzard's long-running hit Overwatch 2.
In principle, the gaming year 2024, which is coming to an end, was not necessarily a good year for live service shooters. Concord and XDefiant can be cited as examples. The former didn't get off the ground at all and was completely scrapped by Sony within a few days. For this reasonfor the coming year 2025. The most important task for Marvel Rivals will therefore be to achieve the good number of players in the long term. Will that succeed?
To coincide with the release, there is the obligatory launch trailer for Marvel Rivals for you.
