Mecha Break's $47 skin packs and gameplay-boosting auction house drag user reviews down to "mixed" even as the shooter's concurrent player count hits 132k on Steam

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Mecha Break has some players feeling mega broke

Mecha Break
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After an array of widely-played betas, Mecha Break has finally launched across PC and Xbox to some impressive player counts, but it's not all rosy out there. The shooter's Steam user reviews are settling in at "mixed" owing to some pretty aggressive monetization, which includes $47 cosmetic packs and an auction house that's skirting the pay-to-win line.

Mecha Break launched to a concurrent player peak of 132,816 on Steam, as SteamDB shows. The true number is likely actually a bit higher, as that figure doesn't include players on Xbox or using the game's standalone PC launcher. It's worth noting, however, that the playtest earlier this year reached much, much higher numbers.

Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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