The peak of daily online in Artifact fell lower than 200 players

With regard to an average number, it was equal to 168 people in the last 30 days. Since the release of the card game by Valve, the situation of Artifact has been becoming worse and worse. The best rate had been on the launch day, after that the game started fading. A game designer and a few other team members who were working on Artifact left the project at the beginning of 2019. By the way, they had had the similar experience before the development of the card game by Valve. They helped to release the famous Magic: The Gathering.

There were rumors on the Internet on March 21 that Artifact might become free-to-play and players will receive access to all cards. Later, the developers of the game announced that they would not release updates until they fix all main issues, which impede the development of Artifact.