BioWare's closure and the cancellation of its in-development Mass Effect game have left the series' future in a precarious position. We still have the original trilogy, though, and many people went back to play through its Legendary Edition for N7 Day.

November 7 is N7 Day, a day on which Mass Effect fans, and usually BioWare, celebrate the series due to the significance of the N7 code in the games. With BioWare’s closure and Mass Effect Universe’s cancelation, the celebrations were a little more muted than usual.

There were still celebrations, though, with thousands of people returning to the Normandy to mark N7 Day. At one point on Saturday afternoon, there were 10,380 of you playing the Legendary Edition on Steam at the same time, according to SteamDB. Not only is that the first time the game’s player count has broken 10,000 since 2021, but it’s the highest concurrent player count the remastered collection has achieved since August 2021, which was the tail end of its launch window.

A new report suggests that Mass Effect: Universe was still years away from launching after development paused to shift focus to The Veilguard.

That’s just in Steam, too. There were almost certainly others playing, maybe even more, on PlayStation and Xbox. Sadly, not on Nintendo Switch , where the Legendary Edition still isn’t available. One of those ports that felt inevitable not so long ago, especially now that we have the Switch 2 . Now that there’s no BioWare, it might end up never coming to Nintendo consoles, which feels like a huge wasted opportunity.

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