Steam smashes all time record reaching 38.3 million concurrent PC players
Steam smashes last month's record by a staggering 1.1 million.
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Steam has just reached a new all-time high, with the platform hitting 38.3 million players online on Sunday, September 22nd at 14:00 UTC.
The most popular PC gaming platform just got even more popular, Steam managed to smash last month’s players online record by a respectable 1.1 million. The previous record stood at 37.2 million, but this time the PC gaming giant managed 38,367,277 online players over the weekend.
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Let it be noted, that these are not concurrent players, these are concurrent online players. If you’ve never felt a part of something, you might have been a part of this. The record came on Sunday at 2 pm UTC, reports Steam DB, this is probably not the exact time that the record hit, but Steam DB only graphs by the hour.
Steam record likely thanks in part to Black Myth: Wukong
Since its release about a month ago, BM: Wukong has reached a staggering concurrent player all-time peak of 2,415,174 and it continues a steady run rate of about 530K per day over the last week or so. It has shuffled up and down the Steam DB top 100 charts since its release and it now lands at number 5 on the list.
Whatever the reason, it’s nice to see that Steam, is still on the up. Steam offers fantastic discounts at times, and if you only shop for Steam discounts, your PC will (eventually) pay for itself. Steam is pretty community-focused, so it’s good to see that users still supporting the platform after 21 long years.
If you were on your Steam account and logged in this Sunday just gone, then you were a small part of the history that unfolded today. If Steam never breaks this record again, you’ll forever be a part of the biggest concurrent user event in history (until it’s broken by something in the future).
