Dear Stormworkers,
This week is announcement week, with minors last week and next week!
This week we will briefly discuss some numbers around Stormworks!
Something that continues to amaze us is how long players engage with the game. Steam tells us that the average player has spent 100 hours and 32 minutes in game so far. We say 'so far' because this number has been steadily going up over the years and continues to climb as players continue to play. This is an extremely high average play time for a Steam game.
Meanwhile, SteamDB tells us that Stormworks peaks most days at over 3000 players playing at the same time. The "all time" history shows the game has grown in popularity steadily and is probably still growing. This is really unusual, and if you check out graphs for other games, you will mostly see big popularity at launch or big updates, with a steady falloff afterwards.
Having on average 2500 players around the clock means that for every minute that goes by, there is 41.7 hours of total playtime. This is awesome! Game development isn't really a high pressure job, but if you break something, then 41.7 hours of players time is potentially ruined every minute it takes you to come up with a fix. It can be very stressful!
In total, the game has 6500 years of total playtime across all players.
The Stormworks Workshop has now passed 200,000 creations! This in itself is incredible, but when you take the time to look at these creations, it is very striking how much time, skill, effort and patience has gone into each and every one. The Most popular creation has over 90,000 subscribers which means about 1 in 6 players have subscribed!
In terms of development, we are continuing to work on our minor updates, major updates, DLC, new game, and more. We are really excited to share more info soon!
Much love <3,
The Stormworks Developers