How a random indie game came out of nowhere to post the 10th highest Steam player count ever

Ever heard of a game called Geneshift? No of course you haven't. It was barely a speck on the gaming radar until yesterday when, out of nowhere, it became one of the most played games on Steam ever.

Geneshift recorded a concurrent player count of 213,183 players, according to Steam Charts, an increase of 9000 per cent. It's a number that would place Geneshift fourth on Steam right now, behind colossi PUBG, Dota 2 and CS: Go.

In the all-time rankings it puts Geneshift 10th - 10th in how many hundreds of thousands of games I wonder? Yet there it stands among giants like Grand Theft Auto 5, Monster Hunter World and Fallout 4. And it's only made by one guy.

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from Eurogamer.net http://bit.ly/2R5NPo7
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