Steam Smashes 28 Million Concurrent Users—Nearly 3 Million More Than Last Year

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Steam smashes 28 million concurrent users.

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A steady increase in users throughout 2021.

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Steam hit another concurrent user record, officially surpassing 28 million people using it.

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According to SteamDB on January 9 28,230,853 concurrent users have been seen.

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2.8 million concurrent users have been increased compared to January 2021.

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Valve’s client has experienced strong growth since the pandemic noted Daniel Ahmad.

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An increase of nearly 10 million simultaneous users between 2020 and 2022.

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A lot of games topping SteamDB’s charts are older releases much like last week’s record.

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CS:GO with Dota 2, PUBG, Apex and GTA 5 filling out the top five spots

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Newer games like New World, Football Manager 2022 make the top 50.

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2021 releases MIR4 and Naraka making the top 10

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