Looking at player count each December for 6 years shows how bad it is now.
Numbers are from steam…
Dec 2019 - 92,171
Dec 2020 - 67,000
Dec 2021 - 61,768
Dec 2022 - 62,138
Dec 2023 - 49,451
Dec 2024 - 20,929
We used to have 50k to 60k steam players around the holidays. This year we had less than half of that. I know the game isn’t dead… but it’s hard to not be concerned.