Babylon’s Fall, the game industry’s punching bag as of late, took another reputational beating recently. Someone better have that “stop he’s already dead” meme from The Simpsons ready.
As first spotted by VGC, only one person was playing the PC version of Babylon’s Fall last Wednesday. Yes, a single person. You thought things couldn’t get worse than only 10 concurrent players. Think again, bucko.
That statistic may sound unfathomable for a multiplayer title by the legendary Platinum Games, but this isn’t Bayonetta. According to Steam Charts data, Babylon’s Fall regularly dips below nine concurrent players these days. So it’s not as if only one person playing the game is far-fetched, despite how abysmal that sounds.
Funnily enough, the lonesome legend is allegedly games journalist Dashiell Wood. Who revealed themselves on Saturday.
Not a joke this is literally me https://t.co/bSB3dfCId7
— dash (@dashiellwood) May 7, 2022
As someone that follows Wood on Twitter, I can confirm that they’re into Babylon’s Fall. Talk about a Phantom of the Opera mask-off moment.
There are days when Babylon’s Fall has upwards of 50 concurrent players on Steam, but never much higher than that. The all-time peak is only 1,155 people, which is hilariously bad for a full-priced RPG from Square Enix that only came out on March 3, 2022.
With how many solid online multiplayer titles are out there, even of the free-to-play variety, there’s not much use sticking with something like Babylon’s Fall.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
