Halo: Campaign Evolved showed the worst launch in the series on Steam - 25k players online
Halo: Campaign Evolved is live worldwide for owners of the standard edition on Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC — also via Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. So: how did Steam respond to this first freshly released Halo on the platform in a while?
Peak concurrent users hit 25,376 (≈25.4k) roughly 10 hrs after launch. That figure looks small next to Halo Infinite (2021), which reached 272,586 at its peak — remember, Infinite offers a free multiplayer component — and it’s well under the 161,024 peak seen by Halo: The Master Chief Collection when MCC arrived on Steam in Dec 2019. Ouch? Maybe not catastrophic, but certainly modest for a name with this history.
Halo: Campaign Evolved started in second place on the Steam chart last week - Palworld still leads
Early-access buzz nudged reviews up into "Mostly Positive" briefly, but the overall tag has slid back to "Mixed" — 68% of 6,119 recent user reviews are positive. On Steam among Xbox Game Studios titles, Campaign Evolved sits at 17th by concurrent players: it edges past Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (24,863; ~24.9k) but trails far behind Forza Horizon 6 (302,645; ~302.6k), which remains the publisher’s biggest Steam opener.