CS: Go, Data 2, PUBG and Co. — These players usually belong to the favorites on Steam. Recently, however, a new game has briefly gained in the player charts: Cap com Arcade Stadium. The free game has been on the market since May, but only now experienced a real player's tower. What's it all about?

Steam player numbers: Cap com game goes steeply

With the top games in terms of player numbers there are rarely great movement on Steam. On the top places, the PC-Kracher CS: GO, DATA 2 and PUBG are trophy as usual. Hit sensations or large releases can mix there and again, but this is not on the agenda.

The more surprising is a look at the current charts of the most played games on Steam: Instead of getting the usual sight, is in the all-time high with over 488,000 playing a new game under the top places — Cap com Arcade Stadium. (Source: Steam DB)

It is not really true, because Cap com's emulator game has already been published in May 2021. In it, you can experience old Arcade classics in a collection. In the free basic game, however, only the Shoot'em UP 1943: The Battle of Midway included.

So why this player's tower? Has a fresh update for enthusiasm turf treasured? Or is it just trendy on twitch? No, the answer is much simple. The supposed player masses are not about people sitting behind their PC screens, but a bunch of bots.

Why storm bots the free game?

Have the bots suddenly tailored in airplanes to shoot? No of course not. Bots are often programmed on steam for making changes to games on to lurk, to beat profit from it. For example, if a paid game becomes a free game.

The associated trading cards of the game are then collected in masses of the bots and sold on the in-house marketplace of Steam. In the case of Cap com's Arcade Stadium, trading cards have been added to the free game. Time for the bots, even to complain immediately. (Source: Twitter)

If you look at currently in the statistics of player numbers, the onslaught on the prey is already flooded again, and the bots are continued. Or fall into your winter sleep until the next profit opportunity. Now only 20 players in Cap com Arcade Stadium — so probably real people. (Source: Steam DB)

AUF Steam are always real curiosities — as well as the idle-game cookie clicker, which has recently celebrated its comeback on the platform:

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