It is the primary weekend of the yr, and everybody’s enjoying video games it appears, as Steam has simply seen a brand new all-time consumer peak.
As noticed over on Resetera, a few hours in the past Steam hit a brand new all-time concurrent consumer file about a few hours in the past (on the time of writing), a whopping determine of 33,675,229 gamers. To be clear, that is simply gamers logged in to Steam, not essentially truly in-game. Funnily sufficient, although, Steam truly broke that file yesterday, with 10,837,140 gamers truly enjoying one thing, an equally spectacular determine.
The earlier concurrent file for gamers simply logged in was again in March 2023, slightly below 100,000 lower than in the present day’s file, so it is fairly the rise. Why this weekend of all weekends there are such a lot of folks sign-in to Steam is anybody’s guess, although my very own can be that with most individuals again at work being reminded of the stresses of on a regular basis life, the players amongst us wanted to unwind that little bit greater than standard. There’s additionally all these new Steam Decks that Santa would have handed out over Christmas too, which is able to seemingly have helped ship the file.
