Unless you just gotta crawl fast
Curiosity has gotten the better of me. I’m among the less than 70 people on PC currently playing Umbrella Corps, Capcom’s fast-crawling multiplayer-centric take on Resident Evil that saw a commercial release for some reason. That’s sub-70 players, despite a Steam free weekend happening right now.
And that’s no fluke. According to SteamDB — which isn’t perfectly accurate but is accurate enough for this sort of thing — the all-time peak for Umbrella Corps is 421 simultaneous players. 421. The hell?
I’d expect a low figure like that for an under-the-radar multiplayer-only indie title shortly after release, not this year’s one new, non-re-release Resident Evil game (even if it is an obviously lower-appeal spin-off). Like, we know it’s a bad game by any standard, but it’s also kind of funny. Unintentionally, I mean. I assumed it would have gotten more sympathy-laugh plays, if nothing else. Guess not!
Anyway, Umbrella Corps is free to download and roll around in until Sunday at 12:00pm Pacific. I should’ve listened to Zack and scrolled right on past it, but didn’t. Now you can do the same.
I wonder if there’s a similar post in store for Metal Gear Survive next year.
