Steam sets a new record with 28 million concurrent users

Steam remains the most popular game store and platform in the world and continually sets new records for concurrent users. And yesterday they did it again with over 28 million concurrent users.

The specific number of concurrent users was 28,230,661, which is pretty damn impressive in itself. But analyst Daniel Ahmad hit Twitter to explain the impact of COVID-19 on Steam and how the platform has become more and more popular each year.

To make things even sweeter for Valve, some of the most popular games on Steam are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (which peaked yesterday at 881,051 players) and Dota 2 (which peaked at 748,270 players).

Only time will tell if Steam can maintain this momentum. After all, Ubisoft doesn’t like Valve’s business model and no longer sells games via Steam. And Steam is also getting stiff competition from the Epic Games Store, which is nothing more than bribing players with regular portions of free games to win their affection.

However, looking at Ahmad’s breakdown above, it doesn’t look like Steam is going to go bankrupt anytime soon! And if the overdue Steam Deck proves popular once it’s finally released, Steam could get another wave of popularity in the coming months.