Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock Studios has announced that the game has already reached the 6 million player milestone just two weeks after launch. The developer announced the news via the official Back 4 Blood Twitter account earlier today, thanking "Cleaners" for their hard work and dedication over the past fortnight.
While Back 4 Blood has had a fairly positive and successful launch, these numbers are very likely the result of the game being on Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft announced at the beginning of the month that Back 4 Blood would be hitting the service on launch day, possibly prompting quite a few people to try the game out via Game Pass rather than pre-order or purchase the game.
This isn't to say that Back 4 Blood wouldn't have been successful without Game Pass. People have been clamoring for a true successor to the Left 4 Dead franchise for a while now, and Back 4 Blood debuted fairly well in the boxed charts in the UK, coming in fourth behind high-profile titles such as Metroid Dread, FIFA 22, and Far Cry 6.
Even if a fair amount of those 6 million players are currently inactive due to trying it out once via Game Pass, Back 4 Blood still has a dedicated audience that adores the game. However, several players are becoming agitated over the game's solo player mode. Back 4 Blood disables progression for solo players, forcing them into matches with random teammates in order to earn supply points.
Turtle Rock has made fans aware that it's working on a solution, although over two weeks later fans are starting to get impatient. Even in the replies to Back 4 Blood's celebratory tweet, there are a number of players still asking whether improvements to the game's solo mode are coming or not. Hopefully, Turtle Rock can implement something sooner rather than later.
If you'd like to check out Back 4 Blood yourself, the game is currently available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. If you want to know more about the game, you can read our review here.