{"id":74755,"date":"2026-04-07T06:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74755"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:48:54","slug":"dad-this-makes-me-want-to-play-ksp-11-year-old-kerbal-space-program-gets-player-boost-amid-artemis-iis-mission-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74755","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dad, This Makes Me Want to Play KSP!&#8217; \u2014 11-Year-Old Kerbal Space Program Gets Player Boost Amid Artemis II&#8217;s Mission to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Space simulator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/kerbal-space-program\">Kerbal Space Program<\/a> has seen a resurgence as players celebrate the launch of the world&#8217;s first manned mission to the Moon, Artemis II, in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Artemis II crew are heading home after travelling further from Earth than anyone before, with a splashdown back on Earth scheduled for April 10. This mission is a giant step toward a return to the moon and future missions to Mars, and it also marks the first time humanity has flown to the Moon in over 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>It has also seemingly reignited our fascination with space, with thousands of players jumping into the 11-year-old simulator game, Kerbal Space Program. While it usually bobs around on a very respectable 3-4,000 peak concurrent players on Steam, since Artemis II&#8217;s launch, <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/220200\/charts\/#3m\">SteamDB<\/a> has recorded an unusually high concurrent peak of 11,390 players in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"kerbal-space-program-enhanced-edition-breaking-ground-expansion-announcement-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>While that doesn&#8217;t quite match its launch record \u2014 that sits at 19,149 players \u2014 it&#8217;s impressive nonetheless, particularly coupled with a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchtracker.com\/games\/32742\">732% increase in Twitch views of the game in April 2026, too<\/a>, up from an average of around 96 views to 799.<\/p>\n<p>The resurgence has spilled over into the game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/KerbalSpaceProgram\/comments\/1sejnup\/april_5th_2026_highest_concurrent_player_count\/\">subreddit<\/a>, too. &#8220;Was watching the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space simulator Kerbal Space Program has seen a resurgence as players celebrate the launch of the world&#8217;s first manned mission to the Moon, Artemis II, in decades. The Artemis II crew are heading home after travelling further from Earth than anyone before, with a splashdown back on Earth scheduled for April 10. This mission is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":74757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74759,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74755\/revisions\/74759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}