Steam breaks 10M concurrent in-game players for the first time

SteamDB revealed via Twitter that the PC gaming platform hsd surpassed its milestone of 10 million players in-game concurrently. On the same day (January 8), it also broke its record of most online users at once, with the new record being just over 33 million.

Specifically, the concurrent in-game player count peaked at 10,284,568 on Sunday after spiking over 10 million on Saturday. This is the number of players actively gaming at the same time. The concurrent player count — the number of gamers online, even those not gaming — hit 33,078,963 on the same day.