Dragon Age: The Veil Guard released on Halloween and, as a gift to BioWare, became the studio's biggest Steam game.
For SteamDBthe action RPG has 70,414 concurrent players at the time of writing. Compared to its predecessors, this puts it well ahead of its predecessor in 2009 Dragon Age: Origins (7,089 players) and 2014 Dragon Age: Inquisition (4,964 players). Steam numbers for Age of the Dragon II they are not available.
As for BioWare in general, it's 2021 Mass Effect: Legendary Edition comes behind Guard of the Veil to 59,817 players. Save for 2019 Hymn, most of the studio's games from 2004 to today are on the Valve platform.
Although EA and BioWare have not revealed concrete sales figures, Guard of the Veil it's also the publisher's biggest single-player Steam launch, slightly beating last year's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (67,855 players). Earlier this week, the game received fairly positive reviews, and BioWare has been heavily promoting it since its reveal over the summer.
All roads lead back to Steam
Dragon Age: The Veil Guard Steam's numbers are further noteworthy as it was advertised as a native game on the platform. On PC, EA games typically require an Origin login, but BioWare does repeatedly underlined his game had no requirements and that it was fully playable on Steam Deck.
Over the past year, other publishers have gradually returned to Steam's fold and ported their own games. Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws will arrive on the platform later in November increase salesAND Assassin's Creed Shadows has already been promised as a Steam game from day one.
Activision Blizzard has been moved old Call of Duty titles to the platform, then I brought Blizzard's Surveillance 2 AND Diablo IV.
