Steam just set a new record of concurrent players. Back in January 2024, Valve’s digital platform surpassed 33 million concurrent players. And yesterday, Steam hit over 34 million concurrent players.
It’s also interesting to look at the Top 20 Most Played Games (for the last 24 hours). As we can see, the most played game remains Counter-Strike 2, followed by DOTA 2. It’s shockingly impressive how these games are still so popular. In third place, we find PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, followed by Apex Legends, Helldivers 2 and NARAKA: BLADEPOINT. Palworld is in seventh place, whereas GTA5 and Baldur’s Gate 3 are in eighth and tenth place, respectively.
The fact that GTA5 is still in the Top 10 is also impressive. And yet, despite those numbers, Rockstar will not bring the next part of the series on PC at launch. As I’ve said multiple times, this was a business decision and nothing more. Take-Two and Rockstar know there is a huge PC audience for GTA. I mean, you can see for yourselves how popular GTAV still is. So no, the absence of GTA 6 from PC has nothing to do with Rockstar being unable to develop it alongside its console cousin.
Let’s now look at the All-Time Most Played Games on Steam. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is in first place with 3.2 million concurrent players. In second place, we find Palworld with 2.1 million concurrent players. Counter-Strike 2 is in third place, followed by Lost Ark and DOTA 2. The last game that had one million concurrent players was Cyberpunk 2077. In the Top 10, we also find Elden Ring, New World, Hogwarts Legacy and Baldur’s Gate 3.
And that is that. It will be interesting to see when Steam will hit its 35 million goal. Will it happen in Q3 2024, or will we have to wait until 2025? Place your bets, everyone.
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John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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