Dragon Age: The Veilguard: EA’s largest single-player game launch

The discussions about Dragon Age: The Veilguard continue. Some hate it, many love it, and obviously quite a few. The role-playing game is already breaking records on Steam.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is finally here and is being viewed as controversial. While quite a few players are more or less enthusiastic about Bioware’s new game after the first few hours, hate continues to pour out in the comment columns. And of course there is a lot in between.

Bioware and Electronic Arts can apparently rest easy, because the first numbers for Dragon Age: The Veilguard are quite promising. At least on Steam, the game had a strong launch in the first weekend and immediately established itself as the most successful Steam launch of a single-player title, even ahead of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

On the first day, over 70,000 simultaneous players jumped on the title, and over the weekend the number even climbed to almost 90,000 players at its peak. It doesn’t sound like much at first, but these are extremely impressive numbers for a single-player release. This means that the game is also in the top 10 of the Steam charts and was even able to overtake Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 for a short time.

In terms of ratings, Dragon Age: The Veilguard has also done well on Steam so far, despite the expected review bombing. At least 75% of the user reviews there are positive. Completely different on Metacritic. Compared to a review rating of 84, there is a user rating of 34 – there the review bombing is much more intense, especially due to “woker propaganda” in the game.

In our test for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the game came out quite well: “Dragon Age: The Veilguard has become a very entertaining game for story lovers, not always original in terms of gameplay, but well told and with lovable characters. But also felt very mainstream and somehow over a long period of time more Hogwart’s Legacy than Baldur’s Gate or The Witcher 3, more light and airy than dark and threatening. On the way to the finale, Bioware turns things dark and dark “Epicness” is powerful and makes our jaws drop more than once.”