Steam is a popular digital video game distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation. It allows users to purchase, download, manage, and play video games. It also provides online features such as matchmaking, achievements, and community features. It’s been around for quite a while now, but new records are being made on the platform every single year. The platform has witnessed a surge in online activity, breaking its record for peak concurrent players for three consecutive weeks.

For three straight weeks, Steam had its highest concurrent players ever

  • March 2nd: 34,298,950 concurrent users
  • March 10th: 35,385,530 concurrent users (previous record)
  • March 18th: New Record! 36,354,393 concurrent users

Given below are the top 10 games played during the last 24 hours.

  1. CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) – 1,425,033 players
  2. DOTA 2 – 725,429 players
  3. PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) – 706,785 players
  4. Apex Legends – 434,411 players
  5. Jedi Fallen Order 2 (presumably Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 2) – 378,370 players
  6. Escape from Tarkov (likely reference to the game) – 276,440 players
  7. Source SDK Base 2007 (game development toolkit) – 216,523 players (interesting outlier)
  8. Rainbow Six: Siege – 201,933 players
  9. GTA 5 – 185,713 players
  10. Baldur’s Gate 3 – 149,943 players

Counter Strike started gaining popularity after the second iteration of the game launched, running on the Source 2 Engine. The rest of the list also highlights some changes compared to the previous day (March 11th). Previously popular titles like “Phantom Parlu” and “Last Era” dropped out of the top 10, with “Phantom Parlu” falling to 11th place (138,585 players) and “Last Era” reaching a peak of 119,642 players in the last 24 hours.

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