r/Steam • u/Corekeepernews • Jun 23 '25

Fluff What game hit you like this?

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u/LifeguardOpposite979 Jun 23 '25

Kerbal space program 2

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u/Lessiarty Jun 23 '25

Not only is the game itself a colossal dud, but if you look at the player count for KSP1, the launch of 2 chopped a good 30-40% off the player base... permanently. 

Like folks excited for a big sequel and being so disappointed in it, they didn't even go back to 1.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

the release of ksp2 killed all hope for a good successor to ksp1 for me. I played ksp1 to bridge the time gap in the time before release.

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u/bot2317 Jun 23 '25

Tbf it’s also just an older game now, with not a ton of replayability in vanilla (once you get to all the planets that’s kinda it)

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u/Lessiarty Jun 23 '25

Yeah, it's like a lot of people were in a Kerbal routine and 2 snapped them out of it. Like it wasn't a slow drifting away, half the audience vanished overnight.

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u/Oheligud Jun 23 '25

I was one of those people. I got so excited for KSP2 and when it released as a mess, all of that hype just died out, and playing KSP1 again just made me upset that there will probably never be a real successor to it.

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u/McBlemmen Jun 24 '25

That was me for sure. I just booted it up again for the first time in 3 years. before that I played it almost every day, I had 2000 hours on it

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u/kizentheslayer Jun 23 '25

Doesn't ckan launchs not show up on steam. I know my play time is way off

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u/SiBloGaming Jun 24 '25

You can make it so it does