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[havoc00]

Despite receiving a strong initial burst of PS Plus subscribers when those Foamstars trophies arrived day one on the service back in February 2024, it seems Foamstars' PS Plus player count has seemingly been in freefall ever since. Now, two months later, it seems players have all but abandoned Foamstars for other PS5 multiplayer games with the shooter having lost over 94% of its initial PS Plus player base.

• Foamstars debuted with more players in its first week than Helldivers 2
• However, Foamstars has since lost over 94% of its PS5 and PS4 player count
• The Square Enix shooter has since dropped out of our top 200 PlayStation Chart

Using gameplay data from over 3.1 million active PSN accounts (courtesy of our partnership with GameInsights), we had previously reported that Foamstars' initial PS5 and PS4 player count had already began to fall shortly after the game's day-one as one of February 2024's monthly PS Plus games.

PS Plus game Foamstars has lost nearly 95% of its player base

Foamstars' PS Plus player count has dropped almost 95% since the game's day-one launch on PS5, PS4, and PS Plus Essential back in February 2024.

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[YCoCg]

Foamstars came out?

 

[Darchaos]

Who?

 

[killatopak]

Foambros why’d you leave

 

[havoc00]

Foambros why’d you leave

Foambros we got too cocky

 

[TintoConCasera]

It's over...

 

[Nankatsu]

Is this a new category from pornhub that I'm unaware of?

 

[GymWolf]

This news sound like old man foaming at the stars.

 

[Kupfer]

 

[Certinty]

Never even heard of this.

 

[DrFigs]

It's a fun game, but it's extremely basic. There's no depth to it, unforunately. And it basically has just one good game mode.

 

[diffusionx]

No reason to play this if you have a Switch, and if you don't have a Switch, there's no reason to play it.

 

[engstra]

Downloaded it, played one game, immediately deleted it

 

[Deft Beck]

Foamstars has a great aesthetic and music but the gameplay is boring. And the characters are very talkative and annoying.

 

[N0S]

Down the drain

 

[Guilty_AI]

It's over...

its foamover...

 

[Portugeezer]

So there's like 50 people left.

 

[Robb]

 

[Mossybrew]

Game so bad giving it away free didn't even help. Dang.

 

[The Pleasure]

Is this a new category from pornhub that I'm unaware of?

I told a woman I was a FOAMSTAR. She laughed, put on her pants and walked out.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

lol where's that poster who wrote a chapter's worth of praise about it and said it was better than Splatoon?

 

[havoc00]

I told a woman I was a FOAMSTAR. She laughed, put on her pants and walked out.

You have to demonstrate to her why you earned that name

 

[DragonNCM]

 

[STARSBarry]

To be fair it's lost 4% less players than I expected.

 

[mckmas8808]

This is why GAAS is so tough.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

All foam, no smoke.

 

[The Pleasure]

You have to demonstrate to her why you earned that name

That's how you get an order of protection against you.

 

[Hero_Select]

Square Enix is the one company who confuses me the most

 

[Draugoth]

This is why you make a single player game that is profitable, at least you will be selling copies until they ran out, meanwhile very little people might buy a generic GaaS post release

 

[Ozriel]

Sony puts their own first party GaaS games on PC day one.

Square signed a deal keeping Foamstars console exclusive, with no PC release.

I thought SE claimed their days of making daft business decisions were over?

 

[sigmaZ]

Which one of you bastards was it?

 

[Jaruru]

Nice try...

 

[crackajack]

Foamstars has a great aesthetic...

can't agree. The sparkly Las Vegas vibe it goes for is okay I guess, but the main thing, the foam, just looks terrible. It does not look like foam, and it's bloom, or whatever it is, is just straining to look at. Unravel eg, which tries to display snow, the same shaders would look much better and possiby could be tweaked to look more like foam. Any game that tried to display sand (Uncharted, Journey, Spec Ops) does look better. If they at least allow me to select the color. Instead it changes in each round and the white one looks worst, just blinding, while the ones with some color at least have some detail left and not just max out the teranits on my TV.

I liked the coop mode, but everything else feels undercooked and underdeveloped. I guess it would be a fair price as a 9,99 title and free via Plus was an alright move, but anyone that greenlit this and monitored its progress and expected huge numbers, must be delusional.
The whole foam idea, with not only being a surface modifier but manipulating the geometry is kinda promising, more so than it probably is in Splatoon. Maybe I would not love Splatoon either, never played it, don't know it much, but they seemingly copied only the very basics and not really transfered enough of its succesful essence.

 

[poodaddy]

This news sound like old man foaming at the stars.

Bro fuck screaming at the stars I'm gonna start foaming at them.

 

[Jaybe]

Releasing a GaaS game 2 days before the biggest GaaS game of the year (Helldivers 2) is like being sent out to die…

 

[ssringo]

I thought SE claimed their days of making daft business decisions were over?

At best they still gotta ride out a few more years of daft business decisions they've already made. Even then I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Ribi]

Sonys answer to palworld failed.

 

[adamsapple]

In their wisdom, Square opt to keep a game that thrives on an active online community to just one console.

They deserved the failure.

 

[FoxMcChief]

So much time and money just wasted.

 

[Gudji]

Not enough democracy.

 

[Ozriel]

Releasing a GaaS game 2 days before the biggest GaaS game of the year (Helldivers 2) is like being sent out to die…

How would they have known Helldivers 2 was going to be such a big hit?

No, the release date was fine. And putting it on PS+ gave it a very good chance of getting a decent playerbase. Their key mistake was not launching on PC as a F2P or budget priced title too.

 

[kiphalfton]

Redfall:

 

[FoxMcChief]

Was this game money hated, so even more wasted money?

 

[Skifi28]

I didn't even bother installing it, but I imagine I don't count as a "lost" player for just redeeming it on plus.

 

[Dacvak]

I could barely play 10 minutes of this game. It was like if AI generated a Splatoon knockoff. It’s got no soul at all.

 

[Aenima]

Why everytime i hear the name Foamstars i think about epileptic ppl having seizures? Something wrong with me.

 

[Danjin44]

This is the fate of most GaaS games, people play it for couple of weeks then go back playing Fortnite.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Gaas fatigue

 

[rkofan87]

good make rpgs se not this gas shit.

 

[tmlDan]

who cares?