Steam sets an all-new concurrent user record of 27.1 million - nelsontherme98

Steam clean sets an all-new concurrent user record of 27.1 million

(Image credit: Steam)

Information technology's happened again: Steam has determine another new concurrent user record, this meter clocking up a staggering 27,182,165 players earlier today.

According to SteamDB, of those 27.1 million users, 7.8 million were actively in-game and playing something – which is too a brand new record for Steam, excessively.

It's an incredible accomplishment for Valve's PC platform, not least because many of the prior records set in 2020 and 2021 occurred during people coronavirus lockdowns across the world.

Steam again beats its online simultaneous users record with over 27 million users currently online.Previous record was correct in Apr at 26.9 billion.https://t.co/D6WDHbz0B4 moving picture.chitter.com/z9d5cDd1JLNovember 27, 2021

Steam's upwards trend began in January 2020 when the humans began to self-insulate ab initio of the COVID-19 crisis. On February 2, Steam clean's existing record of 18,537,490 users – set ahead in January 2018 – was surpassed, smashing the existing record by an majestic 300,000 to peak at 18,801,944 players.

It's gone happening to be broken several times since, including a weekend in Parade which sawing machine numbers breach 20 one thousand thousand for the showtime time, and then 22 million righteous a calendar week later. We saw 24.7 million users peak in December 2020, so 26.5 million in February 2021.

The fashionable record – which was set in April 2021 – stood at 26.9 million users.

American Samoa for the games we're playing? The titles that have been keeping us busy include CS:Choke – which itself has seen a concurrent peak of near a million players today – as well as Dota 2, Inexperient World, Halo Endless, Team Fortress 2, Rusty, Apex Legends, MIR4, GTA 5, and Agriculture Simulator 22.

ICYMI, Halo Infinite – which has yet to release in full and with only a beta version of its multiplayer available to play out right now – is already the most-played Xbox Game Studios title of respect of all clock time on Steam. However, players are already reporting that they'ray encountering cheaters using aimbots and wallhacks to cheat their way to victory.

"Get me turn off cross-play until you guys behind get an actual anti-bearded darnel enforced," one player implored to developer 343 Industries.

Looking for something new to get stuck into? Here are the optimum PC games right now.

Part of GR+'s news crew, Vikki is a (jumpy) survival of the fittest horror survivalist with a penchant for sci-fi, shooters, thrillers, and a strong cup of Yorkshire tea. A committed Guardian and Spartan, she's terrible at FPSs, but loves 'em all the same.