Steam exceeds 10 million concurrent players and 32 million connected users

Tradition says that at the beginning of the year Steam surpasses its record for connected users and 2023 has not been an exception. During the last hours, the digital store owned by Valve has registered more than 32 million concurrent users, of which more than 10 million were playing. Steam’s good health is also a reflection of the evolution of the PC as a gaming platform.

Specifically, during the night of last Saturday Steam reached 32,162,987 users connected simultaneously, of which 10,082,055 were playing one of the many titles available in the store. In both cases it is a historical record and a new example of the unstoppable growth of Steam. In January 2021, the platform registered 28 million simultaneous users and in 2020 it was 25 million. Some services benefited from the pandemic, but once it was overcome, they have not been able to retain users. Steam has kept the new customers and is now attracting more.

The last time Steam recorded a record for simultaneously connected users was in October 2022, when the record stood at 30 million patrons of which 8.5 million were playing. Steam has gone from gathering 15 million players in 2017 to adding 32 million in 2023. Over the next few weeks Valve should publish the 2022 retrospective. It will be then that the company will review what has possibly been the best year in Steam history . In 2021 the store registered 132 million monthly users and 69 million daily players.

We go back to 2023. Of the 32 million concurrent players that Steam managed to gather yesterday, more than 10 million were playing what? In the first two positions we had two usual suspects: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with just over a million players and Dota 2 with over 700,000. Other games like Lost Ark, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Apex Legends surpassed 300,000 concurrent players, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Elden Ring were the only two games released in 2022 to be listed on the list. top 15 with a peak of more than 150,000 and 100,000 users, respectively.