Project Gorgon hits 4,000+ concurrents on Steam and opens a fifth server

Project Gorgon just set another Steam concurrency high, cracking 4,000 players at once over the weekend. Steam Charts pegged the peak at 4,126 on Sunday, continuing a run of higher weekends for the indie MMO.

With more people piling in, Elder Game has brought a new server online. According to a Discord post from Jackencola, the game’s fifth server, Laeth, is now live and the team is asking new players to start there. Laeth was a player-voted name, narrowly beating out “Paullus.”

The devs also shipped the weekend patch they’d previously mentioned, and it’s mostly aimed at stability and performance as the population climbs. The patch notes on the Steam post call out bug fixes, graphics load improvements, and efforts to reduce lag in Serbule, which has been especially busy with the influx of new players.

Beyond the technical stuff, the update tweaks how outdoor spawns work in a few zones. Kur Mountains, Sun Vale, and Ilmari Desert now keep a minimum monster density even when lots of players are in the area, and overall monster plus loot and harvestable density has been increased. The patch also improves the game’s “don’t spawn a monster on a player’s head” logic, and applies that updated behavior to Serbule, Serbule Hills, and Eltibule as well.