Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Hits Its Highest Player Count Since Launch

Mass Effect Fans Celebrate N7 Day By Helping The Series Hit A 5-Year High BioWare Published Nov 9, 2026, 2:52 AM EST Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. BioWare's closure and the cancellation of its in-development Mass Effect game have left the series' future in a precarious position. We still have the original trilogy, though, and many people went back to play through its Legendary Edition for N7 Day. November 7 is N7 Day, a day on which Mass Effect fans, and usually BioWare, celebrate the series due to the significance of the N7 code in the games. With BioWare’s closure and Mass Effect Universe’s cancelation, the celebrations were a little more muted than usual. Mass Effect Legendary Edition Hits 10,000 Players For The First Time Since 2021 There were still celebrations, though, with thousands of people returning to the Normandy to mark N7 Day. At one point on Saturday afternoon, there were 10,380 of you playing the Legendary Edition on Steam at the same time, according to SteamDB. Not only is that the first time the game’s player count has broken 10,000 since 2021, but it’s the highest concurrent player count the remastered collection has achieved since August 2021, which was the tail end of its launch window. That’s just in Steam, too. There were almost certainly others playing, maybe even more, on PlayStation and Xbox. Sadly, not on Nintendo Switch, where the Legendary Edition still isn’t available. One of those ports that felt inevitable not so long ago, especially now that we have the Switch 2. Now that there’s no BioWare, it might end up never coming to Nintendo consoles, which feels like a huge wasted opportunity. Lots Of New Mass Effect Merch Despite No More Mass Effect Games Dark Horse Direct Even though the future of Mass Effect has never been more uncertain, returning to the last games in the series we might ever get wasn’t the only way to celebrate N7 Day this year. We also got quite a bit of new merch. Almost certainly stuff that was made and ready to go, with its creators as shocked as the rest of us when news of BioWare’s closure broke. Youtooz’s Mass Effect collection now has three more figures, as Mordin, Liara, and Joker were revealed ahead of November 7. Dark Horse opened pre-orders for a limited edition Leviathan statue of which there will only ever be 500, and the BioWare Gear Store is selling a new wearable Mass Effect helmet. That last one is the most confusing, and potentially suspect, as that store is run by EA, so it’s odd that it remains open and presumably means all money made from it will now go directly to the publisher. Released May 14, 2021 ESRB M for Mature: Blood, Drug Reference, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence Developer(s) BioWare Publisher(s) Electronic Arts Engine Unreal Engine 4 Franchise Mass Effect