Steam, broke a new record in the number of simultaneous players as of recent hours. According to SteamDB, which tracks user statistics, access to the digital store at the same time More than 34.6 million users logged in. This indicates the largest number of concurrent users of all time.
The number of simultaneous players on Steam reached 35 million
While not all of these users are actively gaming, they are more than 11 million The user was reported to be in-game. That figure is narrowly shy of the all-time high of more than 11.5 million reached in January.
The increase in the number of Steam users is most likely due to newly released games. Especially palworld And Helldivers 2 The unexpected popularity of productions such as this led to players meeting on Steam.
Palworld, the survival game released in mid-January, managed to capture more than 15 million players in just one month. Another factor seems to be the PlayStation exclusive game Helldivers 2. Classic games like CS2 continue to dominate Steam’s lists.
Valve’s own games are also seeing unexpected increases. For example Counter-Strike 2 And Dota 2, had a player base of over 1.4 million and 700 thousand respectively in the last 24 hours. Free productions such as PUBG and Apex Legends also managed to attract hundreds of thousands of people.
With highly anticipated games like STALKER 2, Homeworld 3, Hades II and more releasing later this year, Steam’s popularity doesn’t seem to be waning.