Steam Sets New Activity Record With Over 28 Million Concurrent Users
It has only been a week since Steam set a new activity record, and it has already been broken. Yesterday more than 28 million users were logged into the service at the same time.
Only a week ago we wrote about Steam;s new activity record, and it has already been broken. Yesterday, at the hottest time of the day, 28,230,853 people were logged into Valve's service at the same time. Of those, 8.2 million were playing a game.
The last two years have been a streak of success for Steam. The rapid increase in the number of logged in users started in 2020 and was driven by the COVID-19 pandemic that made people spend more time at home. Previously, it would take to a year or two for the service to set a new record, but lately it's been happening every few months or even weeks.
To illustrate the increase in popularity, just compare the best results of the first months of the last few years.
Deadline: | Activity record |
January 2019. | 17.6 million |
January 2020. | 18.3 million |
January 2021. | 25.5 million |
January 2022. | 28.2 million |
The steady growth of Steam is all the more impressive when you consider the growing competition from other hardware platforms and the fact that on PC Valve has to compete with Epic Games Store.
A large part of this is due to the wide range of productions offered by the platform. In addition to the high-budget games that are expected to be successful, smaller titles from lesser-known developers regularly become hits on Steam. Last year such successes turned out to be Valheim and Naraka: Bladepoint, and in December another surprise was Ready of Not. It also often happens that older and slightly forgotten positions can suddenly experience a renaissance after a successful update, an example of which is the recent stiruation of Project Zomboid.
