In the first 8 days of the new year, Steam has twice updated its own records. This was pointed out by The Verge, citing SteamDB data.
Initially, on Saturday, January 7, 2023, 32,186,301 users logged into the Steam client, of which more than 10 million (10,082,055) were playing games at the same time. A day later, on January 8, 2023, the records were renewed - 33,078,963 users in the network, 10,271,632 in games.
Steam has reached 10 million concurrent in-game players for the first time, as well as 32 million concurrently online users today.https://t.co/D6WDHbz0B4 pic.twitter.com/rbRabSCLye
— SteamDB (@SteamDB) January 7, 2023The figure of 30 million users on the Steam network was crossed in March 2022, 20 million - two years earlier, in March 2020.
The top 10 most popular Steam games by the number of online players in the last 24 hours (the record for the entire observation time in brackets):
1. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – 1,133,708 (1,308,963)
2. Dota 2 – 759,689 (1,295,114)
3. Goose Goose Duck 640 324 (640 324)
4. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS – 450,151 (3,257,248)
5. Apex Legends – 372,374 (511,676)
6. Lost Ark – 332,977 (1,325,305)
7. Grand Theft Auto V – 175,861 (364,548)
8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II | Warzone 2.0 – 165,008 (491,670)
9. Rust – 152,943 (245,243)
10. Wallpaper Engine – 134,870 (147,019)
Goose Goose Duck, which recently appeared on the top, is a social game in the spirit of Among Us. MMO action/RPG Lost Ark is not available in Ukraine through a Russian publisher. Wallpaper Engine live wallpaper utility is the main non-government controlled porn viewing tool in the PRC.