Atlus is still limit-testing the concept of Too Much Persona 5, and its latest spinoff is already its biggest P5 Steam launch ever

A zoomed-in Persona 5: The Phantom X promotional screenshot showing the Phantom Thieves stood in front of a building and a red sky.
(Image credit: Atlus, Sega)

How much Persona 5 is too much Persona 5? That's a question that Atlus seems no closer to answering, as Persona 5: The Phantom X is finally availaꦫble worldwide, and it's alre﷽ady hit the highest concurr﷽ent player peak on Steam out of all the P5 releases on there.

Since the original Persona 5, we've also had its Royal re-release, the Dancing ꧒in Starlight rhythm game spinoff, its Strikers action RPG, Tactica 🍷strategy RPG, and now, the free-to-play Phantom X is available in way more territories than before.

), the Black Wings Game Studio-developed spinoff of Atlus' favorite child managed to hit a peak of 41,622 within 12 hours of its launch. Given that we're currently midday on a weekday, I suspect that could well rise further in the days to come.

It's worth noting that not all of those aforementioned P5 games are actually available on Steam, but it's still outdone the ones on there, includi🥃ng the best version of the main ga﷽me, Persona 5 Royal, which launched to back in 2022.

Admittedly, it did have a bit of a disadvantage in the sense that its PC release came three years after its initial launch on consoles (two years outside of Japan), but even so, it's still being beaten by a free-to-play take that's infused with gacha elements. That said🧔, the fact that The Phantom X is free is a gigantic factor hanging over this whole player count thing.

As for Perso♒na 5 Tactica, well, that one didn't have a particularly strong start on Steam. With a concurrent players, it was never going to be incredible competition, but even so. wasn't much stronger at 8,730.

For what it's worth, The Phantom X is close to reaching the highest concurrent player count of any Persona game on S🅰team, too – it's currently only beaten by Persona 3 Reload, which is barely hanging on with its . There's definitely still room for the new spinoff to overtake it – we'll just have to watch this space.

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