The Lost Ark becomes the second most played game in Steam history after just 24 hours

Lost Ark has comfortably crossed 1 million concurrent players after just 24 hours, becoming the second most played game in Steam history by concurrent counts. The Diablo-like MMO launched in the West yesterday, when Amazon Games teamed up with Smilegate RPG to localize and translate the Lost Ark and make it available in English. It has now passed the concurrent records for both Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, which regularly dominate the top of Steam's most-played games.

Lost Ark is so popular right now that it has experienced server issues and has a queue just to start playing. SteamDB lists Lost Ark's concurrent players at 1,311,842, passes CS:GO's record of 1,308,963 players and Dota 2 of 1,295,114. It's not clear exactly how many of those players are actually actively playing the game and aren't sitting in the server queue, though.

Either way, it is now second only to PUGB in the top concurrent list. There is still a long way to go to beat PUBG's all-time peak of 3,257,248 players. Lost Ark is the second big hit for Amazon Games, with New World hitting a concurrent record of 913,634 players four months ago.

Lost Ark was originally released in South Korea in 2019, and has millions of active players in South Korea, Russia, and Japan. It's free-to-play and has quickly risen to the top of Twitch, beating the popular Just Chatting category.