Steam broke a new attendance record by bringing together a maximum of 34.6 million players connected simultaneously on March 3… and among them, more than 11 million were actively playing.
This March 3, Steam broke a new traffic record. According to data collected by the SteamDB observatory, the Valve platform has in fact identified a little over 34.6 million players connected simultaneously. Steam’s previous record in this area was set at 34.2 million users online simultaneously.
As Eurogamer points out, if a total of 34,649,583 players (very precisely) were all connected to Steam this Sunday, 11,146,564 of them were actively playing on March 3. Here too, the figure is impressive.
Traffic on Steam took advantage of the 2020 lockdowns… without really dropping since
It must be said that Valve’s platform was among those to benefit the most from COVID-19 and the various sequences of confinement that followed in 2020. The thing is that the influx of Steam for its part did not never really declined since. On the contrary, it increased until it reached four years later the statistics recorded this weekend.
But what about the games attracting the most players? Well, SteamDB data tells us quite precisely there too. We thus learn that Counter-Strike 2 remains at the top of the ranking with 1.4 million players connected in 24 hours between March 2 and 3. Then follow Dota 2, PUBG, Apex Legends, And Helldiverse 2 with 727,000, 638,000, 455,000, and 429,000 players connected simultaneously, respectively.
In the honorable mentions, let us finally cite Naraka: Bladepoint, PalworldAnd Last Epoch, all of which registered more than 200,000 users in 24 hours between March 2 and 3. Great performances there too.
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