Steam had a record-breaking weekend, surpassing 10 million concurrent in-game players for the first time in its history, as well as 32 million concurrent online players. According to SteamDB (a database not affiliated with Valve), Steam surpassed previous milestones by seeing 10,082,055 active in-game players and 32,186,301 concurrent online users – online but not gaming – on Saturday, January 7th.
More impressively, Steam has once again broken the concurrent online user record since SteamDB’s initial announcement on Saturday, with the database also reportedly hitting Steam’s all-time high of 33,078,963 users.
Steam has been increasingly breaking records for simultaneous online users since the beginning of 2020, which coincided with the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic. By March of that year, the platform had broken the all-time record for concurrent users with 20,313,451, and by March 2022 it had set a new record of 30 million users.
Most popular games on Steam
The two most popular games on the platform are hardly surprising: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive took the crown, reaching over 1 million concurrent players over the weekend, with DOTA 2 in second place. However, the third-place name was surprising: Goose Goose Duck, a free-to-play multiplayer game.
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