Trails in the Sky the 2nd Shatters All Previous Falcom Steam Records
Turns out people really wanted to know what happened after that cliffhanger.
Just days after launch, Trails in the Sky the 2nd has become Nihon Falcom’s biggest game ever on Steam by concurrent players, reaching an all-time peak of 15,335 players on September 20.
That puts it ahead of the previous Falcom record holder, the Asian Steam version of Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, which peaked at 14,295 concurrent players following its release last year.
Trails has never exactly been a small JRPG series, thanks to its cult following, but Nihon Falcom’s latest release is giving the franchise levels of recognition it hasn’t received before.
Trails in the Sky the 2nd launched on September 17 for PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2, continuing directly from the events of last year’s Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter remake. Despite being a sequel, players didn’t have any qualms about returning in droves.
According to SteamDB, the game climbed to 15,335 simultaneous players 3 days after launch, officially passing every previous Falcom release tracked on the platform.
For comparison, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter’s global Steam release peaked at 4,874 players, while its separately released Asian version reached a considerably larger 14,295. The latter had previously been Falcom’s Steam record.
Before the first remake arrived, Falcom’s previous Steam high was considerably lower still. GamesMarket reported that Trails of Cold Steel IV had once held the company’s record with a peak of 2,758 concurrent players.
Going from fewer than 3,000 concurrent players to more than 15,000 across the span of Falcom’s recent releases is nothing short of impressive.
Big launch numbers don’t necessarily mean players are enjoying themselves, but Trails in the Sky the 2nd appears to have that covered.
At the time of writing, 96% of Steam user reviews are positive out of a total 628 reviews, giving the game Steam’s coveted Overwhelmingly Positive designation.
Reviews from critics have been similarly enthusiastic. Recent reviews have praised the remake’s character work, expanded presentation, combat improvements, and the way Falcom has modernized the original without completely rebuilding what made it work in the first place.
The Trails series has spent an awfully long time occupying that strange space where everyone who plays it won’t stop recommending it, but everyone else looks at the number of interconnected games and quietly backs away.
With a new company-wide Steam record, that circle may finally be getting a little bigger.
