Steam Sees Numbers Go Up, Breaking User Record Again

Evan Campbell
3/19/2024

One might wonder if Valve's favorite song is Higher by Creed, because Steam continues to see concurrent users go up this year. VGC reports that the PC storefront saw over 36.3 million players at the same time this past Sunday, per SteamDB.That's a new Steam concurrent user record--one that has been broken over and over in 2024. For instance, a new high mark was apparently set last week at roughly 35 million players. In January, Steam kept getting bigger, too, with the record then being notched at 33.6 million people. So when Valve asks, "Can you take me higher?" the answer seems to be an emphatic yes from consumers.At the time of publication, Counter-Strike 2 has the most concurrent players at 1.3 million. Earlier this year, Palworld surpassed 2 million concurrent players on Steam, becoming only the second game ever to break that milestone. It's a feat that Counter-Strike 2 (and Global Offensive) has never reached.Continue Reading at GameSpot...

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