Steam has broken another record with 24.7 million concurrent users

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24,776,635 players were simultaneously online yesterday

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Valve has once against smashed its own record for the most concurrent users on its Steam platform.

Our pals at PC Gamer spotted the update on SteamDB yesterday, which clocked 24,776,635  simultaneous users. 

Though not confirmed, it's speculated that the release of Cyberpunk 2077 and another rise in COVID-19 global cases has seen more people stay home and jump online than usual.

Steam's upward trend began in January when Chinese nationals began to self-isolate at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. On February 2nd, Steam's previous record of 18,537,490 users – set in January 2018 – was surpassed, smashing the existing record by an impressive 300,000 to peak at 18,801,944 players. It's gone on to be broken several times since, including a weekend in March which saw numbers breach 20 million for the first time, and then 22 million just a week later.

As we reported earlier this week, Cyberpunk 2077 is the new most-played game on Steam, overtaking the likes of Dota 2 and CS:GO with over one million concurrent players, even though it's purely single-player.

Vikki Blake
Vikki Blake
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