For Valve, there is no better news than to start the year with a new milestone, its rivals have complicated it in that of stores and launchers for PC; although Epic Games puts all the meat on the spit and Microsoft grows and grows without stopping thanks to the PC Game Pass. But Steam is the most mature in this sense and the one that takes the lead thanks to its huge community conquered over the years.
But what was this new milestone that you can be proud of? Well, no less than 27,942,036 like-minded users on January 2nd. A rather thick figure of which certain things must be qualified; The first is that more than 8.2 million users were the ones actively playing, this data is pulled from SteamDB and can fluctuate, so to eliminate bias in the data, downtime is eliminated and only these are counted as long-playing users.
Steam continues to be successful
Even assuming the data of active users, still an improvement compared to 2020, that the figure reached 8.1 million users. In fact, it was the list of the 10 most played games during the reach of that figure, surprising that most are already veteran games:
- CS: GO.
- Dota 2.
- PUBG.
- Apex Legends.
- Grand Theft Auto 5.
- Team Fortress 2.
- Rust.
- New world.
- Arche: Survival has evolved.
- Football Manager 2022.
Of course, Xbox Game Studios game data added users to those numbers. Halo Infinite had around 56,000 users, Sea of Thieves over 36,000, and over 23,000. And those are just a few examples.