Interested in co-op shooter for vampire hunting Redfall has shrunk so much that the game’s concurrent Steam player count now regularly drops into the single digits. Sometimes the player count is so low that there aren’t even enough people to fill a full four-player co-op team.
In fact, it seems like it Redfall has hit a single-player count every day since September 22 – that’s more than two weeks (via VGC). At the time of writing, he says the game only has nine players SteamDB. However, it’s worth noting that while these numbers paint a bleak picture, they don’t take into account players on Xbox Game Pass or players on Xbox Series X|S consoles.
Arkane Austin’s latest offering was poorly received by fans and critics. Back in May we called it “one of the worst games of the year,” but we weren’t alone in our disappointment. Even Xbox head Phil Spencer made it clear he was disappointed Redfall, at. Reportedly, even the developers of Redfall themselves were secretly hoping that Microsoft would cancel it.
Despite all this, Pete Hines, head of publishing at Bethesda Softworks, has vowed not to give up Redfallstating that “we are going to make sure it is a good game (…) We are always in a learning process, so that is not new for us. We do not like not to meet the expectations of our players. ”
Fallout 76, also published by Bethesda, had a similarly rocky launch before eventually stabilizing and developing its own distinctive identity and appeal. Hines wanted to make a comparison between post-apocalyptic multiplayer RPGs Fallout 76 And Redfallacknowledging that the former’s release was “not flawless” and that “Redfall It’s no different with us.”
That said, mind you Fallout 76 was full of issues at launch, even at the lowest level the game still boasted thousands of players at a given moment RedfallBy comparison, it seems to have become a ghost town.
Redfall may have been a flop, but our list of the best co-op games is full of brilliant titles, just like our guide to the best horror games.