The launch of Starfield turned out to be truly loud and many people were talking about the new Bethesda game. However, online on Steam gradually dropped
Steamcharts collects statistics on online games on Steam and then marks the peak for the month. Starfield was released in September 2023 and by the end of December the game had not the most impressive online performance on Steam.
It turned out that Starfield had lost more than 90% of its players. In October they registered a peak of 137 thousand, in November already 43 thousand, and over the last 30 days the peak is slightly more than 30.5 thousand (and an average of 13.8 thousand players).
Recently the peak online is in the range of 14-20 thousand, Starfield in this regard is inferior to The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4.
At the same time, judging by recent statistics, Starfield is the fifth most popular game on Xbox in 2023.