Steam Sets New Record With Over 35 Million Concurrent Users - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 March 2024 / 2,734 Views
Valve's Steam has set a new record over the weekend for concurrent users online at the same time, according to SteamDB.
Steam reached 35,385,530 concurrent users online on Sunday, which is the first time the service surpassed 35 million users online at the same time. There were also 11 million concurrent users actively in-game.
Steam has now crossed 35 million concurrently online users.
— SteamDB (@SteamDB) March 10, 2024
11 million are actively in-game. pic.twitter.com/ub68pK5499
There were 14,535 games released on Steam in 2023, which is up from the previous record of 12,562 games released in 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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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This number will grow and grow. Now Xbox and PlayStation release all their IPs there.
Steam has grown an absurd amount in such a short amount of time. Throughout 2015, Steam peaked at 8.4 million concurrent users. To start 2024, Steam peaked at 35 million. More than quadrupling in size in less than a decade!
In 2017, Steam was averaging 67 million monthly active users. In 2024, it's averaging 132 million. Insane numbers!
That is amazing!
So many people wasting so much time at the same moment!
