Steam reached a peak of 26,401,443 users earlier today.
Valve again broke its own record for the highest number of concurrent players recorded online: 26.4 million users.
Steam broke the same record six times last year, as an unprecedented number of players were online simultaneously as the coronavirus pandemic continued to grow. As of today, the highest number of players seen simultaneously on Steam was 25.4 million users in early January 2021.
According to SteamDB, Valve’s computer platform reached another record high with 26,401,443 concurrent users on the service earlier today.
As shown in the table below, this shows a growing trend in computer gaming, which sees Valve continue to grow and maintain its user base.
Steam breaks its simultaneous user records, at 26.3 million users! ?
Previous record was 25.4 million on January 2nd. https://t.co/D6WDHbz0B4 pic.twitter.com/DSLzDfECPE
– Steam Database (@SteamDB) 7 February 2021
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Steam also reached the milestone of 120 million monthly active users last month, fueled by people staying home and playing video games.
“While Steam had already seen significant growth before COVID-19 exclusions in 2020, video game play time increased as people began to stay at home, dramatically increasing the number of customers buying and playing games, and hopefully some joy. “It was 2020,” Valve said.
As West reported at the time, and put the booming popularity of Steam in context, the number of 120 million active users per month is higher than the equivalent figures of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. In an interview with CNN in September 2020, Phil Spencer, Xbox boss, said that Xbox Live reaches more than 100 million people every month and in July 2020, Sony announced that PlayStation Network has 103 million users per month.