Monster Hunter: World is Steam’s biggest new game launch of 2018

Monster Hunter: World finally debuted on Steam today for $60, and it already has more people online playing it at the same time than any other new release so far this year. The fantasy hunting simulator debuted for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in January, and publisher Capcom has spent the last seven to eight months getting the PC port ready. And it looks like that effort is paying off.

Monster Hunter: World has 207,000 simultaneous players, according to Steam’s stats page. And that number is still growing at the time we published this story. That’s more than double the second-best debut in terms of concurrent people online this year, which was medieval role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance at 95,000 simultaneous players.