The Last of Us Part 2 made its PC debut just yesterday, but already the game has been cracked.
As spotted by The Gamer, video game pirates have found a way to get the game off Steam – its legitimate PC storefront – for torrenting, less than 24 hours since its release. Posts on social media reveal that the game is available from unofficial sources.
This means that while The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered itself has 15,885 players on Steam at the time of writing, there are likely some players elsewhere given its unofficial PC availability – though it’s hard to tell how much pirating has impacted sales so far.
The Last of Us 2 Remastered currently has a concurrent player peak of 23,350 on Valve’s platform. To compare, The Last of Us Part 1 – which was released on PC in 2023, in a rather sorry state – has a Steam concurrent player peak of 36,496.
Digital Foundry took The Last of Us Part 2 out for a spin on PC ahead of its release. “It’s a better game on launch than Part 1, but with some frustrating elements and a buggy feeling that’s hard to shake,” Alex Battaglia wrote following his time with The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC.
“Beyond the disappointingly high GPU requirements, the biggest complaint here are the frame-time spikes that occur even on high-end kit, which seems incongruous with the game’s cinematic presentation.”
Still, it doesn’t look like any of Part 2’s issues are going to get memed in the same way The Last of Us Part 1 did on its own PC release.
Elsewhere in franchise news, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered’s new 2.0 update is reportedly wiping character upgrades.
Meanwhile, the second season of HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation is set to debut later this month, with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey returning as Joel and Ellie. Earlier this week, The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin addressed those criticising Ramsey for not looking older as Ellie in the show’s upcoming second season.