Armored Core 6 shakes off its niche status to become second-biggest FromSoft launch ever

FromSoftware has become a household name over the past decade, in large part due to its successful and massively influential Dark Souls series and its spinoffs, like Sekiro and Bloodborne. Their Armored Core series, on the other hand, has always been niche enough to be overlooked, but the triumphant launch of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon has proven that the series has what it takes to break into the mainstream.

According to SteamDB, an independent website that tracks Steam metrics, AC6 hit a peak of 150,000 concurrent players within its first 24 hours of launch, which it surpassed the very next day with a peak of 156,000—and it looks on track to do so again.