Steam breaks its records for most concurrent and active users, again

It's a caller year, and a caller accidental for Steam to interruption immoderate records, which it did erstwhile it had implicit 10 cardinal progressive players implicit the weekend.

As spotted by Eurogamer, Steam erstwhile again acceptable different grounds of concurrent users, hitting its latest highest of 33,078,963 players each logged successful astatine once, according to SteamDB stats yesterday (January 8). Keep successful mind, it was lone successful October erstwhile Steam deed the 30 cardinal people for concurrent users, truthful that's rather the leap successful conscionable a fewer abbreviated months. That's not the lone grounds Steam acceptable though, arsenic SteamDB besides reported that determination were 10,284,568 progressive users, meaning determination were a full clump of radical playing games astatine the aforesaid time.

It's not excessively astonishing to perceive erstwhile these peculiar sets of records were set, arsenic astir precisely a twelvemonth agone Steam deed 25 cardinal concurrent users. It's winter, truthful evidently we're each holed up wrong trying to get done our backlog. Although to beryllium precise, the apical 3 games radical were playing includes CS:GO and Dota 2, arsenic good arsenic the caller rising Among Us clone Goose Goose Duck. As good arsenic those three, the accustomed different suspects similar Modern Warfare 2, GTA 5, PUBG, Apex Legends, Rust, Lost Ark, and Wallpaper Engine made up the remainder of the apical 10.

Last week, results for the user-voted 2022 Steam Awards were releasedhttps://www.vg247.com/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2022-steam-awards, and unless you conscionable don't play video games (what are you doing speechmaking this?), it shouldn't astonishment you to perceive the Elden Ring won crippled of the year. It besides won the Best Game You Suck At award, which to that I say: you're doing large sweetie. A caller grant was besides added called Best Game connected the Go, evidently with the merchandise of the Steam Deck, which interestingly capable went to Death Stranding Director's Cut.