Bigger Than Top Steam Hits: Wickedwhims Hits 400,000 Daily Launches in the Sims 4
By Alexander Ross
Context makes this milestone even more remarkable. On Steam, only an elite handful of games routinely breach 400,000 concurrent players. Titles like Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 occupy that tier through free-to-play competitive loops. Single-player and cooperative hits rarely sustain numbers anywhere near that scale years after launch.
Steam concurrents track simultaneous users at a single second, whereas TURBO's metric tallies daily game boots. Even with that structural difference, the comparison exposes a huge blind spot in mainstream industry reporting. The majority of PC players run the game through the proprietary EA App rather than Steam, meaning public SteamDB charts capture only a sliver of total activity. If a single NSFW mod commands 400,000 launches a day, total active player counts across all platforms easily reach into the millions.
Industry analysts often underestimate modding communities because their engagement happens off the digital high street. The telemetry shared by TURBODRIVER proves that community modifications drive daily retention on a scale that rival publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars attempting to manufacture.
Alexander Ross has covered the video game industry for a decade, writing deep dives on game design, esports tournaments, VR developments, and gaming culture.
