Dragon Age: The Veilguard is BioWare’s biggest release on Steam, reaching #1 in sales on Steam and toppling Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

According to Steam DatabaseDragon Age: The Veilguard peaked at 70,414 concurrent players within 24 hours of release. This breaks BioWare’s previous record of 59,817 concurrent players for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.

BioWare put extra effort into ensuring that the PC version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard performed up to par on Steam. The game is verified on Steam Deck and passes Valve’s internal testing for input, display, performance, and transparency. A technical breakdown of the PC version by Digital Foundry revealed that it was an excellent port, which is often not the case at the launch of major PC game releases.

There is also no need for players to use the EA app (the successor to Origin) to play it on PC. Previous EA games required users to play them on the EA app, so this marks a significant change in EA’s launch strategy. However, players must agree to a third-party EULA, as noted by Steam page.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now available for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. In GameSpot’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard review, we said, “The Veilguard feels like BioWare is making a good BioWare game again, and that in itself makes me extraordinarily happy.”