Just a week or so after setting a new record for concurrent users (CCU), Steam has now broken that record as well, passing a major CCU milestone in the process.
A quick look at the SteamDB charts for overall players shows that the platform hit an all-time high of 42,042,778 players yesterday, comfortably passing the 42-million-player barrier as well.
As a reminder, Steam last broke its CCU record on January 5th, when the platform registered a high of 41,816,052 players simultaneously online. It looks like the meteoric rise in popularity of Valve's platform is showing no signs of slowing down, despite Steam entering its 23rd year in 2026.
As noted by user Alejandro LL over on Bluesky, the in-game player count peak record was also broken last week, with 13.4 million players enjoying games on Steam at the same time at one point. That's only a very, very slight increase over last week's figure, but it's still impressive.
By this metric, it's safe to say that Steam is very much the most popular PC gaming storefront, and players are buying games in their droves on Valve's platform as well.
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