Steam breaks records again with 22 million concurrent gamers

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In the context that more and more people are forced to stay at home to avoid Corona virus, the majority have chosen to log in Steam – the platform has broken again record own about number of concurrent players online this weekend, with more than 22 million people logging on during the Sunday rush hour.

Just before 15:00 GMT Sunday, SteamDB reported that Steam hit a peak player count of 22,678,529 – two million more than the record set last week. The number of concurrent players on Steam has been growing since the start of the year and has steadily increased on weekends during the pandemic.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the game most users are playing at the moment. CS:GO also set a new record late last week with concurrent players peaking at 1,096,442 – breaking the new 1 million mark set the previous week.
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Second place is Dota 2, with a peak of 717,882 players during the weekend. However, that number still doesn’t come close to the moba’s record number of players – Dota 2 had nearly 1.3 million players logged in at the same time four years ago, and that record still stands. has not been broken.

Doom Eternal are also on Steam’s list of featured games, with player numbers more than doubling from 2016’s Doom on launch day. The game’s initial player peak hit 104,891 and that number is likely to change over the next weekend – the majority of players are online during the US evening hours.

The other top five Steam titles over the weekend were PlayerUknown’s Battlegrounds, Grand Theft Auto V, and Rainbow Six Siege. In addition, users can now play some other outstanding Steam titles such as Deiland and Tomb Raider for free.
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