Wuthering Waves update 3.4, released on June 8, opened with a large collaboration with the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners from CD Projekt Red and studio Trigger. The double-whammy of Lucy and Rebecca, beloved Edgerunners characters who are now playable fighters in developer Kuro Games' open-world action RPG, has seen the game's Steam version break all-time player records.
SteamDB shows that the June 8 launch saw a peak of 49,497 players on Steam, putting Wuthering Waves pretty comfortably in the top 30 games on the platform. It's currently at a more typical 21,692 players, which keeps it in Steam's top 100. The free-to-play game has always felt built for PC and console and it reviewed well on Steam, sitting at 88% positive after 48,454 reviews.
The game's previous peak of 40,721 players came with the release of update 3.0, which actually makes the collab's popularity more impressive. X.0 patches are consistently the most active periods for games like this, as that's when devs tend to drop huge chunks of new content and give out heaps of gacha rewards that draw players in.
The caveat here is that Wuthering Waves has only been on Steam since April 2025, but the game was actually released in May 2024 and is dominated by non-Steam launchers. It's also available on PS5 and mobile, and is coming to Xbox Series X in July 2026.
The Edgerunners content seems to have been the push some people needed to try the game, and existing players look to have responded well to the collab, which isn't super out-of-place within the game's sci-fantasy world. Edgerunners fans, in particular, have praised the depth of the game's anime-inspired content, which goes well beyond just giving Lucy and Rebecca some new guns.
Cyberpunk 2077 quest designer and Cyberpunk 2 associate game director Paweł Sasko says, "We have done [a] bunch of collabs in the past, small and huge, and I have never seen response this insane from the community. I’m floored by the depth and quality of cosplay, artworks and memes. Wuwa and Kuro are truly blessed to have playerbase this passionate and dedicated."
This ought to be a nice tide-me-over while we await Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2.
