Marvel Rivals has performed incredibly well since its launch and has silenced all its detractors

Game news Marvel Rivals has performed incredibly well since its launch and has silenced all its detractors

A very positive first assessment

Marvel Rivals was officially released on December 6, and the game continues to impress. After achieving a record launch and after more than a month of service, the title of NetEase today draws its first assessment. And the least we can say is that the software exceeds all expectations placed on it. As one user noted RedditMarvel Rivals has managed to maintain an incredible number of players active daily. According to SteamDB, the app recorded an initial peak of simultaneously active players of around 480,000 players upon its release. And a month later, that peak is around 445,000 active players each day, or a retention rate of around 93%. Impressive figures, which will potentially swell with the launch of the first season.

Towards the top

We’ve been saying it for some time now, but the performance of Marvel Rivals commands respect at a time when service games are popping up in spades and, apart from a few exceptions, are struggling to really establish themselves among players, particularly Western ones. Marvel Rivals is, moreover, a hero-shooter, a genre marked by the failure of its most serious representatives, such as Overwatch 2 or ConcordSony’s titanic flop. For its part, NetEase is not banking on a total reinvention of the genre, but rather a perfect mastery of its bases, an exemplary follow-up, but also and above all on the striking force of Marvel, a universe very attractive to the general public. In short, Marvel Rivals is a fun, addictive game, with a business model that satisfies the community and an entire popular franchise available. The software has all the weapons in hand to reach the heights and the figures speak for themselves: at the time of writing, the latest peak of simultaneously connected players of Marvel Rivals is 644,269 according to SteamDB .