Steam breaks its record with over 43.5 million concurrent users
Sunday October 11's peak tops March's by about 820,000; 14.46 million were in-game.
According to SteamDB, relayed by Vandal, Steam hit 43,505,724 concurrent users on Sunday, October 11, above the 42,686,616 set in March 2026. About 14.46 million of them were in-game, also an all-time high (the previous mark was around 13.8 million).
The figure includes people with Steam open but not playing. In the previous 24 hours Counter-Strike 2 peaked above 1.4 million players, Dota 2 around a million and PUBG: Battlegrounds over 700,000. Kotaku also highlights the in-game record.
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