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Steam hits a new record of over 34 million concurrent users | Counter-Strike 2, DOTA 2, PUBG, Apex Legends, and Helldivers 2 were the biggest contributors to the record
The numbers come from SteamDB, which claims that 11,146,564 users out of 34,649,583 were actively playing a game when the record was set on Sunday. The title...
Some of the other games that also contributed handsomely to the record include popular titles like GTA V, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, and Baldur's Gate 3, all of which had more than 100,000 concurrent players. The wildly popular Pokémon-style survival RPG Palworld, which sold 6 million copies within the first six days of its release, was another major contributor to the record, with more than 250,000 players. Steam has long been the default go-to digital storefront for PC gamers, but its concurrent userbase started climbing exactly four years ago in March 2020 when the pandemic-induced lockdowns ensured that a large number of people had enough free time to spend hours playing video games.
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