Steam breaks a new record for the number of logged in users

Steam has definitely been breaking records in terms of usage since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest to run. Explanations.

The new record for concurrent users on Steam is… 28 million players. For comparison: it is more than the total population of Australia or Cameroon. As a reminder: In November 2021, the 27 million mark was exceeded. Clearly, the pandemic is having a significant impact on steam

, not to mention that the number of PC gamers as a whole is growing every year.

The number of concurrent users on Steam has grown significantly in 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19, but it is clear that this growth has continued in 2021 as well.

The highlights that are reached in January each year:

January 2019: 17.6 million
January 2020: 18.3 million
January 2021: 25.4 million
January 2022: 28.2 million

Valve rubs his hands with steam

Obviously, 28 million connected players doesn’t mean 28 million people are actually playing on Steam, far from it. However, this remains a good indication of the “reservoir” of customers available to Valve.

Unsurprisingly, we find Counter-Strike: Global Offensive at the top of most played games with a peak of 1.3 million concurrent players. Which is pretty big.

This number of potential players is a boon for publishers. Starting with Sony Interactive Entertainment, more and more open to the idea of using exclusives on our good old man personal computer. Remember that the PC version of God of War will be released in January 2022!