Most metrics you can use to track a game are totally worthless.
Black Dick Wukangz apparently had a zillion people playing it with the same habits as a multiplayer game for over a month despite having like 40 hours of shit to do max.
Whiny 100k+ TF2 youtubers claim that only 5 people play it because the people that do play the game don't like them
Deltarune crashed Steam when it came out.
And it's currently a giant hole billions of tax and investor dollars are dumped into to make plausibly fake comments on "multi million view" videos online using llms.