So yes, most people are at home these days due to COVID-19, and what do you do with all that time to spare? That's right, gaming on that fancy game PC of yours. Steam noticed that as a new record for simultaneous logged in users has been set.
The platform broke the line of 20 million online users, which the service attributes to many people who stay at home because of the new corona virus, Dutch website tweakers noticed. During the night from Sunday to Monday 20.3 million users were simultaneously logged into Steam. The number of logged-in users and in-game players has been on an upward trend for days now, likely due to measures taken worldwide against Covid-19. Valve itself also attributes the record to this. The most popular game remains Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which had a new record of 1,024,845 players in the last 24 hours. Dota 2 is in second place, followed by Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. In fourth place is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, which also set a new record with 196,352 gamers.
And since we're on the topic of Steam:
Here are the ten top-selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:
- Valve Index VR Kit
- Borderlands 3
- Borderlands 3
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Year 5 Pass
- DOOM Eternal
- Granblue Fantasy: Versus
- DOOM Eternal
- State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
- PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Steam breaks record of 20 million concurrent users
