Path of Exile's free betrayal expansion allows you to act as a detective, apparently resonating with players: shortly after launching yesterday, ARPG broke its concurrent player record and recorded 117,000 people on Steam at the peak.

According to Steam Charts, this is the first time the game has had more than 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, and more than double the number of players in the previous three months. According to chief developer Chris Wilson's previous question about the number of players passing through the game's standalone client, the total number of players may be close to 200,000 (thanks to Reddit user Vindexus for pointing this out). Most of them should have purchased POE Currency.

Betrayal is a huge update that rejoins the old league into the main game, adding new owners, missions, maps and skills, and unifying hiding places. When you face a group of Necromancer Immortal Syndicate, detective work will appear. To stop them, you must hunt down members from the four divisions of the organization and ask them, or bargain with them to understand their structure.

You can convince them to betray their accomplices, and you will eventually search for a safe house filled with POE Exalted Orb to get high-level members. In the end, you will face the planner behind the whole thing. As Stevens pointed out, it is different from the Vengeance system of the Devil War and War.

The road to exile can be played for free on Steam.