A video game that was apparently forgotten by the community has experienced an unexpected resurgence and all thanks to a name confusion, into which tens of thousands of users have apparently fallen. And while the developer Nexon is about to launch The First Descendant, a title that has generated great expectations among fans of third-person shooting games, another title called The Descendant has benefited by increasing its number of players. impressively.
Released in 2016 on Steam and currently worth $14, The Descendant delivers an adventure across multiple timelines, where in a world devastated by climate change and mass extinction, we must embody the last descendants of humanity. , awakened from cryogenization to rebuild their civilization. Your mission: investigate, solve challenging puzzles and overcome intense action sequences to ensure the survival of the species, facing complex moral decisions with branching dialogue.
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Something completely different from The First Descendant, which is described as a free-to-play third-person shooter “that contains gun and explosive violence against monsters similar or not to humans, repetitive but not too intense.” According to SteamDB, a website specializing in statistics for the Steam platform, The Descendant has seen a drastic increase in its number of players in recent days. From an average of 2,000 regular players, the title has jumped to a peak of over 128,000 concurrent users.
While the name is clearly similar, the main reason for all the confusion may be that The Descendant is free-to-play for at least its first episode. And since The First Descendant was advertised as a “free to play” game, it could explain the number of players who have accidentally downloaded it.
Nexon’s The First Descendant is slated for an official release on July 2, and it’ll be interesting to see if the title manages to capitalize on the interest generated by its unintentional namesake.
Banana’s FREE game sweeps STEAM with 884,469 simultaneous players, surpassing Baldur’s Gate 3 and its creators say it is “not a scam or a hoax”
From time to time, in the Steam community we see how certain games go from being totally unknown to becoming global trends with hundreds of thousands of players. Now, a new competitor called Banana has emerged at the top of the Steam popularity charts, a free game where the main objective is precisely to click on a banana as many times as possible.
But beyond the initial simplicity, Banana hides a secret that fuels its popularity. By clicking consistently enough, players can earn an additional banana, which can be traded or sold on the Steam marketplace. Here lies the true appeal of Banana, since thanks to it it is possible to get a rare and expensive banana, which justifies the endless clicking sessions.
