There tends to be a steady flow of older games getting an influx of players, often for reasons that can't be determined. That said, thousands of you flocking back to Detroit: Become Human, seemingly as a way to celebrate the holiday season, was not even close to being on my bingo card.
Detroit: Become Human was released eight years ago, and it has been available on Steam for the last six. Besides a short period at the end of 2024 where it experienced another player count boost - which I'm assuming, much like this latest one, was brought on by a price cut - there have never been more than 10,000 people playing it on Steam at the same time.
That was until the week before Christmas, when Become Human's playercount tripled overnight according to SteamDB. Two days later, it had doubled again, and it has remained at more than 20,000 consistently ever since, hitting a record high on January 4, 2026, when there were 25,615 people playing at the same time. Even now, on a Friday morning EST time, there are almost 10,000 of you playing Become Human on Steam.
There is a very clear reason why this has...
