Now, more than ever, players and pundits are flocking to SteamDB to track player concurrency numbers for existing live-service titles and recently released titles and whether a game is failing or succeeding. It's not perfect, as most games are released on PC and consoles, but it's as close as we can get to the picture we have publicly accessible.
Right now, the focus of those efforts is on Marathon, Bungie's latest title. Before its closure, that focus was on Highguard. And before that, it was Concord. Feel a pattern there?
If the players could see the failure of the highguard, why couldn't anyone else?
Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed that Highgard will be offline next week.
With the data out there seemingly lacking content, a new site has emerged to track titles in real-time to see if they'll “flop.” Naturally, it's called Flopathon, and, as first spotted by Push Square, it's pulling data from SteamDB, though they have a different agenda in mind.
“While publishers hide behind agendas and PR spin, we track what really matters – the players,” reads the site's homepage. “Raw data. Real numbers. No stories. We don't care about your politics. We care about your game. Don't try to brand us as haters because we call out a bad product. We're not here for agendas — we're here for the truth behind player counts.”
The site has established four core principles that seem to guide its approach:
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“Track live player counts – unfiltered, unsponsored”
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“Community-Driven Decisions: Players Decide What Flops”.
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“No corporate influence. No paid reviews. No bulls**t.”
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“Game-focused. Player-first. Always.”
The site also has goals, for some reason
One thing that sticks out, is that there are “goals” that are specifically being tracked. Those titles seem to go against the site's mission.
Right now, the “goals” are as follows:
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Marathon
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1348 East Votto
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Crimson Desert
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The last flag
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Solasta II
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Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
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Skull and bones
Each individual page contains a breakdown of player data, including concurrent charts and percentage growth and decline rates. You can vote if a game is a “flop” or a “hot”. For example, Marathon has 1,700 votes for “flop” status and 435 votes for “hot” status.
There is a chat log called “Field Reports” and a dispute.
“This site is true web democracy. Screw the naysayers,” one user wrote in the chat log.
And there's even a “testimonial” page filled with tweets from people criticizing the site, presumably as a way to show that the mission is worth doing.
SteamDB has already done most of this as an independent effort, so it's unclear what voids will be filled other than allowing people to discuss in real time whether a game is a success or a failure, something that already happens regularly.
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March 5, 2026
- ESRB
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Juvenile/animated blood, language, violence, in-game purchases, user interaction
- Multiplayer
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Online multiplayer, online co-op
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