{"id":1393,"date":"2021-08-19T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2021-09-01T22:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:46:13","slug":"20210728-1393","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20210728-1393\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw &#038; Guess exceeds 30,000 concurrent players on Steam as its popularity grows in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Publication date of the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20210728-170440\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>: 2021-07-28 17:09 (JST)<br>Translated by. Jacob Ritter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The word-guessing drawing game <strong><em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em><\/strong> has become a new trend on Steam. At its peak, the number of concurrent players exceeded 35,000. Drawing games are familiar to players across the world, and many browser and mobile games already exist in this genre internationally. But from within that sea of games, <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> has mysteriously managed to stand out in a big way.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Draw &amp; Guess (Legacy)  Game Trailer\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YRCsbyksAsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> is a drawing game developed and published by the independent development company Acureus. Released this year on March 21, <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> offers two game modes: Chinese Whispers and Quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Chinese Whispers mode, you can have 4~16 players. Each player is given a subject in words and must then depict what\u2019s written by drawing it. When you\u2019re finished drawing, your picture will be passed on to the player to your right, and you will then receive the picture drawn by the player to your left. Your task is to then guess what that player was instructed to draw, and then draw your own version of it to be passed on to the player to your right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the drawing phase is over, the game will move to the voting phase where you can review everyone\u2019s drawings. You\u2019ll compete for points by voting for which player you think had their subject best conveyed from their initial drawing all the way to the last player who drew it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Quiz mode, you can have 2~16 players. The designated drawer will have to draw a certain subject, and then the other players will race to be the first to guess the subject correctly.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-001-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Another unique feature of <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> is that you can freely customize the subjects to be drawn. By default, you can only choose from categories such as \u201cAnimals\u201d and \u201cFood.\u201d However, you can create and register your own subject-sets in <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em>. Additionally, you can also download sets created by other users in Steam Workshop. For example, they include categories from other games such as the <em>Atelier <\/em>series, <em>Monster Hunter Rise<\/em>, and <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em>\u2019s player population on Steam Database, the maximum number of concurrent players immediately following release was around 150. But the game experienced a rapid increase in popularity since late May, and from June to July the maximum number of concurrent players shot up from around 1,000 all the way to 8,000. And in late July, the player population made a steep spike to 10,000, with the number of concurrent players exceeding 35,000 on July 27. It seems <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> is only gaining more of a presence on Steam as time goes on.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"672\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002-600x315.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002-380x200.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002-696x365.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002-1068x561.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-002-800x420.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em>\u2019s player base is concentrated in Asia, particularly China. The peak number of concurrent players seems to occur around 22:00 China Standard Time. Also, many of the Steam Workshop posts are written in Chinese, and most of the rooms on the game server browser also appear to be from China. However, there are also Japanese reviews written on the game\u2019s Steam page, so it seems that as a whole, the game is widely popular in Asia, with China as the central hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Among Us<\/em> is another example of a game that experienced a boom in popularity a while after its initial release. It\u2019s a title that gained popularity after being played by influencers on Twitch. In contrast, <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> has few viewers on Twitch. As it\u2019s rarely streamed on Twitch, <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> must have had another path to popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game\u2019s Chinese title is <em>N\u01d0 hu\u00e0 w\u01d2 c\u0101i<\/em>, which literally translates to \u201cYou draw, I guess,\u201d having the same nuance as the game\u2019s English title <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em>. Apparently, there was another game of the same name that became popular in China around 10 years ago. Since then, the Chinese for \u201cYou draw, I guess\u201d has become recognized as the name for the genre of these types of drawing games where people guess what\u2019s drawn in a picture. If you were to search this term, you\u2019d find that many games bear similar names, <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em>\u2019s popularity in China is likely because it\u2019s part of an already popular genre and has the perfect name to attract those who enjoy it. Plus, it feels like the perfect PC drawing game to self-promote itself via word-of-mouth.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210728-170440-003-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As a side note, <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> experiences some popularity on the Chinese video-sharing site \u201cbilibili,\u201d but that\u2019s not to say it\u2019s among the most-watched content, either. It would seem after all that, rather than based solely on the game itself, the boom in popularity of <em>Draw &amp; Guess<\/em> derives from the familiarity of the beloved drawing game genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that this is a drawing game, being able to communicate with the other players is key. Most of the rooms use Chinese, so it might be difficult to find a spot to play if you can\u2019t speak Chinese. If the game sounds fun to you, why don\u2019t you invite your friends to draw and play a few rounds together (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1483870\/Draw__Guess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam page<\/a>)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draw &#038; Guess exceeds 30,000 concurrent players on Steam as its popularity grows in Asian region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Draw &amp; Guess exceeds 30,000 concurrent players on Steam as its popularity grows in Asia - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20210728-1393\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Draw &amp; 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