It’s been more than nine years since Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance came out. Astonishing, I know — it’s almost as if time loves toying with our minds. Incredibly, the action-adventure title from Platinum Games is having a resurgence for the most bizarre reason.
According to PlayTracker, a website that tracks stats on games, concurrent player numbers for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is up by 1000 percent on Steam (Thanks, IGN). That’s roughly 2000 players on average, about the same numbers Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance saw back during its PC launch in 2014! Up significantly from the 200-600 range that Steamcharts recorded last year.
This surge is apparently due to the “Jetstream Sam Thinking” meme, which features the titular character stroking his chin inquisitively. Primo reaction and caption image material, that. One of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance‘s villains heralds memes as “the DNA of the soul” during a comical tongue-in-cheek speech. It’s such a wonderfully stupid game.
Although it is almost 10 years old, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is seeing numbers it hasn’t seen since launch.
📈 concurrent players up 1000%
🏆 peak in achievement activity across all platformsThe cause? Various meme templates featuring characters from the game went viral. pic.twitter.com/Ey6FmYAXJp
— PlayTracker (@PlayTrackerNet) May 23, 2022
Many consider Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance an all-time great action game. Everyone thought a sequel tease came during the 2015 Taipei Game Show, though it was unfortunately only a teaser celebrating the two-year anniversary of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It’s a crying shame. We could use more top-tier silliness like that these days.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
