Animo Hits 100,000 Concurrent Players on Steam as Reviews Sit Mixed
Pre-release numbers (30 million global pre-registrations, 1 million Steam wishlists) pointed to a large launch, and the player count delivered while the review score is being dragged down by technical complaints rather than the game's design.
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Pawprint Interactive Entertainment released the free-to-play monster-collecting action RPG Animo on September 16 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Concurrent players passed 100,000 shortly after launch, per SteamDB. Steam user reviews sit at 50 percent positive from about 400 reviews, with crashes and insufficient controller support cited as complaints. Mobile versions follow on September 23.
The launch drew a crowd but not yet a consensus. SteamDB put concurrent players above 100,000 shortly after release, a figure in line with the attention the game collected before it shipped. Steam user reviews, however, sit at 50 percent positive from roughly 400 reviews. The complaints named in those reviews are technical: crashes and insufficient controller support. The game is set on the open-world continent of Idyll and includes a Chain system that lets players fuse with a monster and act as one. Multilingual support is limited for now, with Japanese in-game display confirmed.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.