Steam peaked at 26,401,443 users earlier today.
Valve once again broke its own record for the largest number of simultaneous players registered online: 26.4 million users.
Steam broke the same record six times last year, with an unprecedented number of players online at the same time, while the coronavirus pandemic continued to escalate. To date, the highest concurrent player count seen on Steam was 25.4 million users in early January 2021.
Now, according to SteamDB, Valve’s PC platform has reached another record, with 26,401,443 simultaneous users on the service this morning.
As the table below indicates, it shows an increasing trend in the PC game that sees Valve continue to grow and maintain its user base.
Steam continues to break its records of simultaneous users, now with 26.3 million users! ?
The previous record was 25.4 thousand on 2 January. https://t.co/D6WDHbz0B4 pic.twitter.com/DSLzDfECPE
– Steam database (@SteamDB) February 7, 2021
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Steam also hit 120 million monthly active users last month, driven by people staying at home playing video games.
“Although Steam already showed significant growth in 2020 before the COVID-19 blockades, video game play time skyrocketed when people started to stay home, dramatically increasing the number of customers buying and playing, and hopefully bringing in a little of joy to counterbalance some of the crazy things that happened in 2020 “, said Valve.
As Wes reported at the time, putting Steam’s growing popularity in context, the number of 120 million active users per month is greater than the equivalent numbers on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. In an interview with CNN in September 2020, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said that Xbox Live reaches over 100 million people a month, and in July 2020, Sony announced that PlayStation Network had 103 million people. active users per month.