For the sixth time this year, Steam has broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent players ever recorded on Steam.
Steam saw an unprecedented number of players concurrently online back when the pandemic first surged, resulting in millions of people going into lockdown. Before today, the highest concurrent player count seen on Steam was 22 million users.
Now, according to SteamDB (thanks, PC Gamer), Valve’s PC platform has hit another record high, with 24,776,635 concurrent users on the service yesterday.
At the time of writing, that figure has dropped to 22.6m, although that’s still higher than the most recent record of 22 million. Though only speculation, it’s thought a combination of the cold weather, pandemic lockdowns, and the release of Cyberpunk 2077 have all had an impact on the figures.