Back 4 Blood’s Beta is quickly becoming one of Steams’ biggest games

It turns out that many people are thrilled to have a new spiritual successor for Left 4 dead 2 based on the number of players collected via SteamDB. Back 4 Sang ‘The beta hit nearly 100,000 active players on Saturday night.

Back 4 Blood is developed by Turtle Rock Studios, the original people behind Left for dead. It is very evident after playing only a few hours that Back 4 Blood try to be the Left 4 Death 3 the fans want for a long time. It features the same first-person multiplayer co-op action, with people teaming up to battle waves of zombies while trying to reach various safe rooms along the way. While this might not be as good as many would have hoped, at least based on our time with the beta, the prospect of a (sort) New Left for dead got people excited. By 11:30 p.m. EST, the beta had 98,024 concurrent active players.

It was so popular that it made its way into the top 10 most played Steam games as shown by PCGamesN. There were more players in recent days than the usual Steam heavy hitters like Warframe and Team Fortress 2. According to at PCGamesN and the data of Steam Database, the B4B beta reached # 8 on the Steam Most Played Games chart at its peak.

At the time of this writing, about 75k players are actively playing the beta. Not as much, but still a surprisingly high number.

Make that player figure over 98k all the more impressive is that right now it’s a closed beta state. So ohonly people who have pre-ordered or picked up a first code in another way can play. The fully, really the open beta will go live on August 12 and will continue until 16. I am waiting for the numbers of the players will explode when that happens based on those early Closed Beta stats.

While the beta was a big hit on Steam and other platforms, it was not a perfect beta. Some server issues prevented players from playing. More oddly, Back 4 Blood closed beta players started to encounter zombies that seemed to scream the n-word.

WB Games explained at Kotaku that the zombies weren’t shouting insults at people. Instead, two sound files were playing at the same time and created the offending sounding word by accident. WB Games is hoping the issues will be resolved by the game’s launch in October.