Content Warning, the latest internet sensation to surge up the Steam charts, is struggling with server issues as its developer confirms the co-operative horror romp has now been downloaded over 6.2m times since launching yesterday.
If you’re a little out the loop, Content Warning sees teams of up to four players descending into nightmarish depths of inky darkness (it’s all a bit House of Leaves) to capture the horrors within on camera, survive, escape, then upload their footage to SpöökTube, its in-game streaming service, in a bid to rack up the views and become a viral sensation.
It’s all very wholesome in its scares, as Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan discovered when he ventured into its depths, and it’s also been rocketing up the Steam charts, thanks to a mix of heavy streamer attention and the fact it was, for a limited time, free to download and keep.
A result, Content Warning – as announced in a post by its developers Skog, Zorro, Wilnyl, Philip, and thePetHen on Steam – has already been downloaded over 6.2m times. And that early surge of interest has, inevitably, resulted in server issues for the game as its more than 200K Steam concurrents (making it the seventh most played title on Valve’s platform at the time of writing) all attempt to play.