Launched on July 26, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart only peaked at 8,757 concurrent players (CCU) on Steam (via SteamDB).
It currently holds a “Very Positive” rating based on 670 user reviews, with 84% of them being positive.
This makes Rift Apart the third worst launch on PC for a PlayStation game, only above Returnal (6,691 CCU) and Sackboy: A Big Adventure (610 CCU). There is also a PC version of Helldivers, with 6,744 peak CCU, but its developer Arrowhead is not SIE’s first-party studio.
Don’t forget a subset of incels were bothered by this game because of the fact that there is a female Lombax character and all the Lombax’s in Rachet’s universe are extinct (Rivet is from a different universe where she is the only remaining Lombax). It’s dumb but they haven’t forgotten or at least the guy who went on a 15 minute rant as he sold me my ps5 hasn’t.
They’re getting upset about a female version of the main character from a different universe? That’s like the main alternative universe trope
Yes and it’s really odd because the game handles the shift to Rivet really well