For the first time ever in the service’s history, beyond 30 million players they connected to . at the same time Steam to play online, consult their libraries or browse the store catalog. It happened at 14:00 (UTC) on Sunday, October 23, when 30,032,005 players logged into Steam at the same time.
The figure includes all players who had Steam open in a new window. Not only the active players, therefore, but trivially also the users who browsed through the many communities dedicated to video games that crowd the catalog of the Valve store.
The platform’s last record was reached in March 2022, when the players connected at the same time were 29,986,681. According to some analysts, it is possible that Steam will surpass this result by the end of the year. For example, during the weekends before Halloween or around the Christmas holidays, when players have even more free time to play their favorite video games. Typically, the activity on Steam always increases (even a lot) around Christmas.
With over 1 million connected concurrent players, CS:GO dominated the hottest game rankings this Sunday. Dota 2, PUBG, Apex Legends, Lost Ark and GTA 5 follow.
Source: Lega Nerd
