The newly-released demo for a little third-person mech shooter called Mecha Break is hitting some serious Steam player numbers, with hundreds of thousands of players flocking to check out the demo since it launched yesterday.
According to SteamDB’s numbers, the Mecha Break demo reached an all-time peak of 317,522 players yesterday. To put things into perspective, that’s higher than the all-time Steam player counts of games like Destiny 2, Halo Infinite, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and we know how successful the latter is.
That achievement seems even more impressive when we consider that we’re comparing a demo to numbers achieved by fully-released games. Sure, these aren’t quite Monster Hunter Wilds numbers, but that’s a franchise with some name recognition.
Although Mecha Break is getting some big player numbers for its demo, feedback from those players hasn’t been entirely positive. In fact, the demo (which has its own review numbers thanks to changes made by Valve in July) has a Mostly Negative rating across almost 4,800 reviews at time of writing.
Those who’ve left negative reviews point to the game’s kernel-level anti-cheat, which is never a popular inclusion, as well as its monetization model and its lengthy, unskippable tutorial sequence.
Of course, there are many positive reviews as well, and even negative reviews frequently mention Mecha Break‘s gameplay as a positive point. Some players are also urging others to show leniency given that the demo doesn’t necessarily represent the finished product.
If you’re not familiar with Mecha Break, it’s a multiplayer third-person shooter with – you guessed it – an emphasis on mech combat.
The game offers three distinct modes: a 3v3 deathmatch mode, a 6v6 hero shooter-style mode, and a PvPvE extraction shooter. Needless to say, that’s a pretty ambitious mix. It also boasts the involvement of some pretty heavy hitters in the mech world, including Metal Gear‘s Takayuki Yanase and Gundam‘s Junya Ishigaki.
If you’d like to check out the Mecha Break demo, you can do so right now via Steam.
