Steam has done it again: another weekend, another concurrent user record broken, and a new one set.
According SteamDBMore than 34.5 million of us were online simultaneously today, setting a new record for concurrent users of 34,649,583 players.
And of those players, 11,146,564 users were not simply inactive, but actively playing a game when the record was set.
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Until today, the digital platform had a record of 34.2 million users, although that figure was surpassed yesterday when Steam gained 34.2 million online players.
Steam concurrent counts initially began to rise when the world began to shut down at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Stuck indoors with nothing to do but bake bread and play video games, Steam numbers began to rise , but it must be recognized that those numbers have not stopped rising, as demonstrated by today's new record.
As for what games are we playing? Well, according to SteamDB's real-time graph, Counter-Strike 2 is as popular as ever, gaining a whopping 1.4 million concurrent players in the last 24 hours. Dota 2, PUBG, Apex Legends, and Helldivers 2 have also proven popular, with 727,000, 638,000, 455,000, and 429,000 concurrent players, respectively.
Naraka: Bladepoint, Palworld, and Last Epoch have also been busy, all registering over 200,000 concurrent users in the last 24 hours.
