Almost eight years after it was first announced, Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord finally arrived via Steam Early Access yesterday.

The medieval action role-player is doing well, too. Developer Taleworlds has trumpeted some impressive concurrent player numbers - enough, it says, to make it Steam's biggest launch this year.

#Bannerlord has over 145,000 concurrent players right now. It took 100 minutes to reach 100,000. +1250 reviews on Steam, 88% of them positive, in just 3 hours.



All these numbers make already @Mount_and_Blade II: Bannerlord the biggest launch in Steam in 2020.



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These numbers have only grown over the past day, with upwards of 200,000 people now playing at the time of writing.

If you're not familiar with Mount and Blade, it's a swords and shields battler with no fantasy elements where you build up an army of soldiers and go besiege castles.

Here's some guy named Chris Bratt having a look at it for Eurogamer nearly three years ago: