Deep Rock Galactic has hit yet another milestone. No sooner has Ghost Ship Games celebrated the launch of Deep Rock's very first season than does it get to celebrate yet again after selling its 3 millionth unit. That marks another million units sold less than a year since hitting the 2 million mark in January.
Ghost Ship shared a few more big numbers, like 4 million total players thanks to the combined take from Steam Free Weekends and Xbox Game Pass for PC. Peak concurrent players hit 41,733 soon after the launch of Season 01 last month, catapulting Deep Rock "into the absolute top of the most played games on Steam."
Thanks to the "overwhelming" response, Ghost Ship is celebrating a milestone but it's also very busy. Season 01 introduced a lot of new content including several new weapons, but while previous updates might have seen a balance pass on those weapons already, the sheer volume of players Ghost Ship has to deal with means that they're mostly focusing on bug fixes and "minor tweaks" for the moment.
"As we have already stated, we will continue to support and grow Deep Rock Galactic for as long as it makes sense to do so," wrote Ghost Ship. "And when we break our records, it absolutely makes sense to continue, so there will be more Seasons in the future and more news from us on the growth of the franchise."
That growth will continue in future planned updates, with Ghost Ship providing an updated roadmap in the next month. There’s also an upcoming Deep Rock Galactic board game on the horizon, so keep an eye out for that.
In case you missed it, Season 01: Rival Incursion introduced an overarching narrative to what was previously just a fun little mining/shooting game, with the space dwarves taking on robo Jeff Bezos for the right to continue cracking open asteroids for their delicious innards. It also introduced a season pass that was completely free--something that we're really hoping other games try.