Suicide Squad falls short compared to a popular five-year-old video game

For Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League it continues to go downhill. The new Live service title from Rocksteady seemed a flop when it was released on February 22, 2024 to become. The user score Metacritic for the game is still lousy 3.7 out of 10 points. Now the new title has to be chosen Arkham series creators also admit defeat against a five-year-old game.

Suicide Squad on the decline – player numbers are falling drastically

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (buy now €67.12) reached a peak of 13,459 concurrent players achieved and have not been able to break this record since. Since its release, the game has also been losing more and more players. This even goes so far that the player numbers of the supervillain title are temporarily lagging behind the Batman Arkham series.

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Now it’s been discovered that the new Suicide Squad game can’t compete with even a five-year-old game. Because Suicide Squad’s player numbers are now even behind those of The Division 2, which was released in 2019. The user reported on X (formerly Twitter). ethangach was the first to notice the discrepancy and wrote: “Suicide Squad has a quarter of the Steam traffic that The Division 2 has.”

A look at Steam’s current figures reveals that this status has fallen even further. Suicide Squad only has one record at the time of writing 461 active players. Meanwhile, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is busy 3,306 active players. Also The Division 2 was about to be released Not a huge hit, but the open-world shooter has been able to become one over the years build a loyal player base.

A similarly positive forecast for the future cannot currently be made for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Only time can tell whether the co-op shooter will catch up. Rocksteady definitely has a lot more to do with the game to do justice to the live service nature of the title. The first additional content fans can expect is: new playable character in the form of the Joker.

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