Despite the efforts of competitors Steam growing. Valve’s massive gaming platform is breaking records for the number of games released and active players. And it doesn’t have to regularly give away games like the Epic Games Store.
Steam is synonymous with computer games. His influence continues to grow, as evidenced by the new record. This was recorded between four and five o’clock yesterday afternoon. 33,675,229 concurrent registered users. Of these, 10,635,243 had the game turned on. The previous record was 33,598,520 on March 26, 2023.
They have some discounts on records and probably Steam deck. Thanks to this, more and more people are playing on Steam. As often happens, unplayed games dominated. Counter-Strike 2 And Dota 2. The first recorded a 24-hour maximum of 1.2 million players, the second – 730 thousand players. Games completed the rest of the top five PUBG, Apex Legends And Baldur’s Gate 3.
We also learned something interesting recently. In 2023, 14,531 games were released on Steam., which is a significant increase from the previous year, when 12,559 games were released. To give you an idea, 8,900 games were released in 2018.
Of this large number, 2,462 were released in Early Access last year. This is 35% more than in 2022. However, only 12 of all the new games had more than 100,000 concurrent players.
Source :Indian TV
