Valve has once again shattered its own record for the highest number of concurrent players recorded online: 26.4 million users.
Steam broke the same record an astonishing six times last year as an unprecedented number of players were simultaneously online as the coronavirus pandemic continued to rage. Before today, the highest concurrent player count seen on Steam was 25.4 million users in early January 2021.
According to SteamDB, Valve’s PC platform has reached another record high, with 26,401,443 concurrent users on the service earlier today.
As the table below indicates, it shows a growing trend in PC gaming, with Valve continuing to grow and maintain its user base.
Steam continues to break its concurrent users record, currently at 26.3 million users!
The previous record was 25.4 million on January 2nd. https://t.co/D6WDHbz0B4 pic.twitter.com/DSLzDfECPE
— SteamDB (@SteamDB) February 7, 2021
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Steam also surpassed the 120 million monthly active users milestone last month, driven by people staying at home and playing video games.
“While Steam was already experiencing significant growth in 2020 before the COVID-19 lockdowns, gaming time soared when people began to stay at home, significantly increasing the number of customers buying and playing games, and hopefully bringing some joy to offset some of the craziness that was 2020,” Valve said.
As Wes reported at the time, to put Steam’s booming popularity into perspective, that 120 million monthly active users figure is higher than Xbox Live and PlayStation Network’s respective numbers. In a September 2020 interview with CNN, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said Xbox Live reaches over 100 million people each month, and in July 2020, Sony announced that PlayStation Network has 103 million monthly active users.
