On Sunday, August 25, 2024, a record was set with 37,266,324 online users simultaneously, of which 12,534,703 were playing games, which is also a new record.
Usually, new records were set during holiday periods, such as Christmas or New Year, but this time it happened at the end of summer. The most significant event in the gaming industry right now is the release of Black Myth: Wukong from the Chinese studio Game Science.
A little earlier, the game became the second most popular in Steam's history, and the maximum number of simultaneous players has already exceeded 2.4 million. Most players are expected to be from China. According to GameDiscoverCo, as of September 21, 87.6% of players were from China and another 1.6% from Hong Kong.