Star Wars Outlaws has finally made its way to the Steam platform almost four months after the game was released August 30th for PlayStation 5, XBOX X/S, Ubisoft Connect, and Epic Games Store. Unfortunately, Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws failed to reach 2,500 concurrent players on Steam during its opening weekend.
The action adventure game was launched November 21st on Steam and was only able to reach 688 players on its opening day. On Sunday, the number peaked at a meager 2,492 players; just eight players shy of 2,500. Even at its peak, Star Wars Outlaws didn’t even come close to hitting the Top 100 Most Played Games on Steam with the 100th place occupied by tactical fps game Squad with 11,537 players at the time of this news article’s posting.
The game failed to even surpass Ubisoft’s pirate game Skull and Bones which was only able to peak at 2,615 concurrent players on Steam which was released back in February. Considering that the Star Wars franchise is generally a lucrative one, it is surprising that Outlaws couldn’t even surpass Ubisoft’s half-baked “quadruple-A” title.
Outlaws’s performance on Steam comes as no surprise considering that Ubisoft had already stated in its Half-Year earnings report for 2024 as having “underperformed sales expectations” before being released on Steam.
Sales figures for Star Wars Outlaws on Steam range from 4,000 to 45,000 copies which isn’t surprising. According to Insider Gaming, Star Wars Outlaws only sold around 1 million copies during its first month when released back in August.
Reasons for Star Wars Outlaws’s poor reception and lackluster sales range from its gameplay to unpolished state, the uglification of its main character Kay Vess, and even the ever-declining Star Wars brand itself due to Disney’s movies and TV shows though Disney believes Rey is its most “valuable cinematic asset” (check out our pitch for Star Wars Episode X movie). It certainly doesn’t help matters when Ubisoft video games are affected by Microsoft’s recent Windows 11 24H2 patch which will cause a black screen issue for games such as Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed Origins, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Whatever the case may be, it appears that Star Wars Outlaws is not the game consumers are looking for and another potential failure for Ubisoft.
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