Online Artifact grew more than 400 times in 10 minutes

On the night of July 10, the online peak of the card game Artifact increased 433 times in just 10 minutes. The data was provided by the SteamDB service.

On July 10, the online closed Artifact jumped sharply - in just 10 minutes, the peak figure increased from 25 to 10,841 players. At the time of publication, the online game continues to remain at approximately 9.5 thousand users.

Over the past month, the average online Artifact has remained around 20–50 players. Periodically, the figure grows to several hundred or even thousands of users, but such bursts, as a rule, last only about an hour. Possible explanations for the sharp drops in online activity include cheating using bots or exploiting vulnerabilities in the Steam platform.

Artifact is a card game based on the Dota 2 universe, released in November 2018. The project was unable to attract a large audience, which is why after a few months Valve stopped actively supporting the game. In 2021, a restart of the game was released - Artifact Foundry, also known as Artifact 2.0, but it also did not gain popularity and was closed.

Previously, the peak online Dota 2 in June increased by almost 200 thousand users. Players were interested in the release of the new event “Dark Carnival”.