After more than two years of the pandemic, most of us can’t see rising curves, but fortunately there are a few trends that are somewhat encouraging – at least for the video game world. Steam recently celebrated a new record: over 30 million simultaneously active users. Valve’s platform is thus reaching a new milestone that it missed by a hair’s breadth in March 2022.
You know the correct value on Valve’s own chart page spot: 30,027,033 people – otherwise we only know such high numbers from our paychecks here in the team. Of these 30 million users, however, only around 8.5 million actively gambled in a game, claims the comparison value on SteamDB. Here’s what people love to play:
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By the way, the currently most played games are:
- CS:GO with 949,993 people.
- Dota 2 with 638,000.
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Apex Legends with 310,087.
- Lost Ark with 199,298.
- GTA 5 with 134,876.
- Hell: Bladepoint with 117,626.
- Wallpaper Engine with 102,730.
- Team Fortress 2 with 84,568.
- Rust with at least 77,064.
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Steam has been on a fairly steady upward trajectory since 2010, which – and these are of course tragic circumstances – significantly exploded when the pandemic began. From March 2020, the value climbed from 20 to 24 million concurrent users in a few days, in summer the average value then dropped again, only to celebrate a new high towards winter, which even cracked the 25 million mark.
This wave movement from spring, summer, autumn continued in 2021 and 2022, however, the base level of simultaneously active people increased on average. Well, and here we are – at over 30 million. Incidentally, this seasonal wave movement can also be followed very well in the hits here on GameStar.de, although we are still a bit away from the 30 million readers who are active at the same time. Still!