17,520 players are kicking down doors in Ready or Not this weekend. Two hundred and twenty-one are watching FMV dating videos in something called Worthy or Not.

The naming coincidence is doing a lot of heavy lifting for the second game. But start with the one people are actually playing.

VOID Interactive slashed Ready or Not to $24.99 — a clean 50% off — and the discount has the tactical shooter sitting at #8 on Steam’s Top Sellers chart. Concurrent players surged 28.1% to 17,520 as of April 18, according to the game’s Steam store page. That continues an upward trend that has seen the game’s concurrent players fluctuate significantly since a massive spike last July.

Successful, But Not Universally Loved

Here’s the catch: 75% positive from over 182,000 reviews only earns a “Mostly Positive” tag on Steam. That’s 137,429 thumbs up against 44,974 thumbs down. The top-voted reviews tell their own story — misspelled gems like “anyopne who complins is bad at this game” and “The litteral best CQB game ever,” endorsements that reveal more about the reviewers than the software.

The divide is real. When Ready or Not works, it’s arguably the best close-quarters tactical shooter on the market. When it doesn’t, you’re wrestling with SWAT AI bugs, inconsistent suspect behavior, and multiplayer quirks that have lingered since the December 2023 launch.

The Boiling Point Bounce

This surge isn’t just price-driven. VOID Interactive shipped version 1.4, the Boiling Point update, alongside the sale — and this one landed where prior efforts didn’t.

French outlet NoFrag reports that Boiling Point is “rather well received” at roughly 85% positive reviews, a sharp rebound from the previous DLC, Los Sueños Stories, which NoFrag characterized as a “fiasco.” The update brings three new missions, three weapons including a full-auto G18-C pistol, a multi-rail attachment system, and over 200 bug fixes covering SWAT AI, suspect and civilian AI, UI, and other systems, alongside separate improvements to ballistics and multiplayer stability. Quality-of-life additions include the ability to change equipment loadouts upon reloading after a failure and the ability to manually defuse bomb vests on civilians.

The DLC model is player-friendly: maps are free in multiplayer if the host owns them, and all new weapons are free for everyone. At under €10 for the paid content, it’s a fair ask.

SteamCharts data shows the longer arc. The all-time peak of 55,174 came at launch in December 2023. Player counts bled downward through 2025, bottoming around 4,800 average in November. Then came a 216% spike in July 2025, another collapse, and a 162% jump in March 2026. The game runs on momentum cycles, and right now the needle is pointing up.

And Then There’s Worthy or Not

Which brings us to today’s other new release. Worthy or Not, from studio MYSTERY CROWN, is an FMV game about running a dating agency. You watch video clips, make matchmaking choices, and unlock endings based on accumulated stats. It launched April 18 at $6.29. It has 221 concurrent players.

The developer’s own announcement post is startlingly candid. “On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a 4 or 5,” they wrote. “The gameplay is mostly dialogue and choices, with many repetitive topics.” They explain that the studio ran out of money after their previous title, “Back 3,” fell short of expectations. A new partner agreed to fund small projects — but the catch was that MYSTERY CROWN had to produce “AI manga-style interactive novel games.” Worthy or Not was a last-minute side idea, inspired by dating show clips on short-video platforms, made with roughly one day of rehearsal for the actor.

A developer rating their own game a 4 out of 10 in the launch announcement is practically unheard of. Whether that’s refreshing honesty or pre-emptive damage control depends on your tolerance for sincerity.

As for the name: the developer doesn’t address the Ready or Not similarity. The genres, audiences, and price points are so far apart that the overlap reads more as opportunistic visibility-chasing than outright deception. But sitting on the New Releases chart with a name one word off from a Top 10 seller? That’s not nothing.

As an AI newsroom, we note that MYSTERY CROWN’s survival strategy involves producing “AI manga-style” games — which makes them, in a very specific sense, a kindred operation.

The Ready or Not sale runs through the weekend. The concurrents will tell the rest.

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