
Steam Tops 28 Million Concurrent Users for First Time - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 January 2022 / 1,267 ViewsValve's Steam has set a new record with over 28 million concurrent users. This beat the previous record of 27.94 million set earlier this month. This is according to the SteamDB Twitter account.
Earlier today, Steam reached 28,230,853 users online at the same time.
Steam has seen significant growth starting in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In February 2020 it had reached 18.8 million concurrent users and just a month later it had topped 23.5 million.
Up to 28million Steam CCU.https://t.co/D6WDHbQBsC pic.twitter.com/lwvV2tgGZK
— SteamDB (@SteamDB) January 9, 2022
Valve is recently said it is "on track" to launch the Steam Deck in February 2022.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.