Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth hit the most concurrent Steam players of any single-player Final Fantasy
MMO Final Fantasy 14 still holds the Final Fantasy record for concurrent Steam users
The Steam version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has hit more concurrent players than any other single-player Final Fantasy game on the platform.
Rebirth was released on PC on January 23 and, according to data on SteamDB (as spotted by Eurogamer), hit a peak of 40,564 concurrent players over the weekend.
This is higher than any other single-player Final Fantasy game has achieved on Steam, and is significantly higher than the previous leader, Final Fantasy 15 (which hit a concurrent peak of 29,498).
It should be noted, however, that Rebirth’s numbers don’t give it the title of most concurrent users for any Final Fantasy game ever – it only counts for single-player games.
Its peak still pales in comparison to that of long-running MMO Final Fantasy 14 Online, which hit a peak of more than 95,150 – more than double that of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth – following the release of its Endwalker expansion.
Final Fantasy series – Top 10 peak concurrent Steam players
- Final Fantasy 14 Online (95,150)
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (40,564)
- Final Fantasy 15 (29,498)
- Final Fantasy 16 (27,508)
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade (13,803)
- Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (13,263)
- Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion (9,648)
- Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age (8,386)
- Final Fantasy 13 (8,320)
- Final Fantasy 9 (8,229)
Square Enix previously said that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 sales “did not meet expectations”, and that it planned to “shift to a multiplatform strategy” going forward.
While Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth were released as exclusives on PS4 and PS5 respectively, they were eventually released on PC.
Given Square Enix’s new multiplatform strategy and comments from Rebirth’s director saying he wants to see the trilogy appearing on more platforms like Xbox, it’s not yet clear if the third game in the trilogy will have a similar timed exclusivity window, because the terms of Square Enix and Sony‘s exclusivity deal for the third part remain unknown.
