Steam Sets A New Record With 28M Concurrent Players

Despite setbacks caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, Steam has continued to experience immense growth since the start of 2020. According to SteamDB, the platform broke a company record with more than 28 million concurrent viewers/players on January 9th.

This is a huge jump from 2020 when the record was only 18.3 million concurrent players. Last year, the record for most concurrent gamers on Steam topped out at just over 25 million people.

Steam hit 28 million concurrent users today.

Concurrent users saw strong growth during 2020, due to the impact of COVID-19, but it's clear that growth also continued to persist in 2021.

Peaks reached each Jan:

Jan 2019: 17.6m
Jan 2020: 18.3m
Jan 2021: 25.4m
Jan 2022: 28.2m https://t.co/iBRLqLGqAw

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) January 9, 2022

Many familiar titles dominated the list of Steam’s most-played games for January 9th. Some of the titles that were played the most that day included CS:GO, Dota 2, PUBG, Apex Legends, and Grand Theft Auto V.

(All information was provided by Dot Esports and MSN)