https://www.pcgamer.com/for-honor-starter-edition-goes-free-draws-over-225000-concurrent-players-on-steam/

For Honor's starter edition went free-to-play on Steam yesterday, and it certainly drew a crowd. Ubisoft's multiplayer combat game blew up the Steam charts with a peak of 216,499 concurrent players yesterday—and then turned around and topped that today with over 227,000 concurrents.

That moves For Honor into 8th place on Steam's all-time peak playercount list, pushing past No Man's Sky's 2016 launch day playercount (212k) and just below Payday 2 (247k) when it went free-to-play in 2017. Alas, Civilization 6 has been bumped from the top ten as a result.