The success of Valve's Steam gaming platform seems to be unbroken. On Sunday, the number of users logged in at the same time reached a new record: 34,649,583 players were online at the same time. However, “only” 11,146,564 of them were in a match at the same time, which was already higher in January.
The numbers come from graphs SteamDB, a site that collects statistics about Steam and the titles that have been played on it for years, but is not connected to the platform's operators. A new all-time high for registered Steam users was reached yesterday. In January, the peak was just under 1 million users. But last month, there was still an unbroken “peak in-game” record of 11,582,167 players.
The 30 million simultaneously logged in users mark was first broken in October 2022 and the 10 million concurrent players mark was first broken in January 2023. Since then, it has not always been steadily increasing, simply due to overall less time spent in front of the computer in months Summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This winter is setting new records again, and it may only be a matter of time before the 35 million user mark drops – but that probably won't happen until next winter.
The most played games come from Valve itself
One of the most played games of the record day is Valve's newly released first-person shooter Counter-Strike 2 with around 1.4 million concurrent players, followed by the eternally successful MOBA Dota 2 from Same company with about half the number of players. The long-running battle royale game PUBG: Battlegrounds (Krafton) was yesterday and is still in third place today with over 600,000 players.
But new titles also rank high in the rankings. These include Palworld, controversial for its similarity to Pokémon, co-op shooter Helldivers 2, and Diablo Last Epoch competitor in places 6 through 8.
