For Honor’s Starter Edition is temporarily free, and the promotion has brought with it an unprecedented amount of interest in the game, to the tune of a concurrent player peak well over 200,000. Obviously, a free promotion brings more people in, but that’s the eighth highest player count in Steam history – a pretty stunning record even if it is free.

The player count peaked at 216,399 overnight, and that’s a pretty major uptick from last month’s peak of 8,204 – or even the all-time record of 45,923 set back at launch. Yes, For Honor offers Steam trading cards, and a significant number of those players are likely idling to get a handful of pennies on the Steam store, but the numbers are still impressive.

In fact, it’s even beat out the all-time peak for the Rainbow Six Siege player counts – and that’s a go-to example for a Ubisoft game able to escape from a mediocre launch to find great success later on. Whether For Honor’s impressive week leads to further success down the line remains to be seen, but it’s a promising start.

For Honor has been fighting an uphill battle for some time, at least on PC. 95% of the Steam player base dropped off in just a handful of months after release, and though the numbers eventually stabilized, they were certainly lower than you’d hope for a major multiplayer title. (At least on Steam, we don’t know how many play the game straight through uPlay.)

During a financial report back in February, Ubisoft said For Honor has 7.5 million registered players, and 1 million monthly active users, though those numbers are spread across consoles, as well. Either way, the topic’s been a bit of a touchy subject with the company.

This much interest can only be good thing for For Honor’s prospects – the last few month have shown a general increase in player numbers, as you can see on Steam Charts. People are finding new reasons to stick around, and even if those hooks only grab a small percentage of the people currently playing, that’s still a whole lot of interest to bring in. Head to Steam if you want to pick up the game for yourself.