ULTRAKILL Smashes Previous Concurrent Player Record with Newest Update

Arsi "Hakita" Patala and New Blood Interactive's ULTRAKILLhas been in Steam's Early Access since the 3rd of September 2020. Since then, it's had a generational run, comfortably sitting with the prestigious Steam Overwhelmingly Positive rating score, slowly inching its way to the 200,000 reviews.

This is no small feat for an Early Access game, and ULTRAKILL is crushing it. Sales metrics and user sentiment are two great ways to measure the success of the game, but perhaps more shocking is the latest update's launch and how many players it pulled at its release.

Previously, the game's all-time concurrent peak was no number to scoff at — on December 2023, as part of the latest major content update at the time, ULTRAKILL saw 28,076 players come together. This was all part of the Layer 7 update, back when ULTRAKILL hadn't breached 100,000 reviews at the time.

It's fitting, then, that the next update would decimate the previous record, though it's not even close. Layer 8 launched on the 24th of February, breaking the previous record to 71,785 concurrent players at one — more than double the previous. It's a great show for the future viability of ULTRAKILL, and impressively, this happened just an hour after the update dropped on a Tuesday.

ULTRAKILL is at a 35% discount, meaning you can pick up the title for £13.64 from its usual price of £20.99 until the 2nd of March.