Path of Exile: Echoes of Atlas is Grinding Gear’s most downloaded expansion

Path of Exile continues to grind out success more than seven years after its launch. Grinding Gear Games announced today that Echoes of Atlas is its most downloaded expansion.

Echoes of Atlas is Path of Exile’s 35th expansion or update. The free-to-play online action-RPG (think Diablo) launched January 16 on PC and January 20 on PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Grinding Gear said that at launch, Echoes of Atlas had 265,250 concurrent players on Steam, making it the fourth most popular game on the giant PC gaming platform. And since launch, the New Zealand studio said player numbers have been 11% higher than any previous Path of Exile launch. This beats the engagement from March’s Delirium expansion, when COVID-19 was first raging across the globe.