Babylon's Fall Hits Lowest Player Count on Steam at Launch

Despite delays and lukewarm Closed Beta reception, 2022 action role-playing hack and slash game Babylon's Fall by developer Platinum Games and publisher Square Enix finally launches today across PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

Regardless of fan-criticism for adopting a live-service model, Platinum Games had high hopes for their latest release. However, Babylon's Fall sees an extremely lower number of players on Steam at launch, hinting at its disastrous future.

Babylon's Fall has a peak player count of less than 650 concurrent players on Steam at launch, according to latest SteamDB report. Needless to say, neither Platinum Games nor Square Enix has expected such low numbers for a new game.

Apparently, players are not much in favor of it and have complaints over variety of gameplay issues. People are criticizing Square Enix's awful account system, brushstroke visual art-style and a blatant cashgrab attempt for full price tag.

Babylon's Fall adopting games-as-a-service model have greatly angered fans and has already foreshadowed its impending downfall. Players are baffled that a freemium quality game that costs you full $59.99 is full of micro-transactions.

Marketing for the game has also failed to reach a sizeable audience and players on Steam are playing Elden Ring these days anyway. Whatever little number of reviews it received on PC is not very positive either about overall experience.

Platinum Games reportedly wanted to expand on NieR: Automata combat system with online multiplayer experience. Square Enix also had some high hopes for Babylon's Fall to shine even after getting disappointing feedback from critics.

Babylon's Fall fails to get into top 50 sellers on Steam at launch, whereas another Square Enix live service game Marvel's Avengers saw about 28,000 concurrent users and studio executives eventually considered  it as a commercial failure.