Steam sets new record with over 38 million users online

Steam has achieved a new record for concurrent players, surpassing 38 million concurrent users this past Sunday at around 3:00PM. That's an increase of one million players in just over a month since its previous record.

Setting a new record with 38,367,277 concurrent players on the platform, the top most-played games were a good reason for the new milestone set by Steam. This ranking is led by Counter-Strike 2 (with a 1,459,492 24-hour peak CCU), followed by PUBG: Battlegrounds (787,340) and DOTA 2 (731,193). Black Myth: Wukong remains strong with a 24-hour peak CCU of 533,128 players, which is quite impressive for a single-player game.

Making its mark at the ranking's fifth position is Banana, a free-to-play game where players click on a banana to earn more bananas. Despite its seemingly simple premise, Banana has garnered mostly positive reviews and boasts a sizable player base, with a player base peaking at almost 400,000 players during the day and an all-time peak of nearly one million players. Naraka: Bladepoint claims the sixth spot, followed by Apex Legends, Satisfactory, and the ever-popular GTA 5. Deadlock, Valve's latest game, closes Steam's top 10 most-played games.

Despite setting a new record for peak concurrent players online, the in-game peak concurrent player record wasn't beaten. This record was set last month, with over 12,534,703 users playing a game on Steam.

KitGuru says: Were you online on Steam during the peak?

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