again breaks its record of simultaneous users, exceeding 26 million

It seems like Steam is hell-bent on us writing this news over and over again. For the eighth time in the past year, Valve’s platform has broken its own record for concurrent users.

If the previous brand left the ribbon in more than 25.4 million users

, now the figure increases significantly. 26,401,443 users, according to the page SteamDB, have remained connected during the afternoon of yesterday, Sunday.

This does not mean that all of them were playing a title, they were simply connected to Steam. Actually, 7.3 million of those users played

, a number below the record 8.1 million.

Counter Striker: Global Offensive, Dota 2, PUBG, Apex Legends Y Tale of Immortal, the title that is sweeping China, were the most played works at that time. Reasons to understand this growth? The always worrying global pandemic and the arrival of lunar new year holiday in the Asian country, concentrating more people in front of the screen.

For two years, the largest number of concurrent users remained at 18.5 million and was not until February 2020 that constant was broken. It is clear that Steam is living a great time, driven by current circumstances.