Phantom Blade Zero reached 399,310 players on Steam at 6:30 a.m. UTC on Oct. 29, according to figures reported by Nerdly. The count came the morning after S-GAME’s action RPG launched on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Developed by S-GAME Studio and published by S-GAME Publishing, the game is available on Windows through Steam for £49.99. The launch-day player figure reflects the number of people playing at the recorded time rather than a full-day total.
Steam users give the game a Mostly Positive rating
Steam users had posted 2,002 reviews by the time of the count. The platform marked the game “Mostly Positive”, with 79% of those reviews rated positively.
Professional reviews have also contributed to the game’s early reception. Metacritic lists Phantom Blade Zero at 88 for its Steam release, placing the title in the favorable range of the aggregate’s ratings. The score is separate from Steam’s user-review percentage and represents the professional review average tracked by Metacritic.
How the launch figure compares on Steam
Nerdly compared Phantom Blade Zero’s recorded player count with daily peaks for other prominent Steam games. The comparisons use a single live-player snapshot for the new release against each rival’s highest count across a full day:
- Counter-Strike 2: 1,281,353 players at its daily peak
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS: 808,962
- Dota 2: 707,688
- Deadlock: 219,152
- Call of Duty: 171,060
- Cyberpunk 2077: 144,460
The three highest figures were above Phantom Blade Zero’s recorded count. The new release was ahead of the daily peaks listed for Deadlock, Call of Duty and Cyberpunk 2077 at the time of the comparison. Its count was also more than twice Cyberpunk 2077’s reported peak of 144,460.
Those figures provide an early view of the game’s Steam launch alongside its initial user and critic scores. S-GAME Studio developed the action RPG, while S-GAME Publishing handled its release.
