Steam reaches its highest number of simultaneous players; Cyberpunk 2077, the best seller, gets a ‘very positive’ rating

What just happened? Steam broke its record for concurrent users on Sunday when more than 27 million individual accounts signed up to the platform at the same time. There were several factors that contributed to the achievement, including Steam’s fall sale and Thanksgiving weekend.

SteamDB reports that Steam broke its record for concurrent users yesterday at 7:00 AM PT / 10:00 AM ET when 27,384,959 people signed up simultaneously. And although 7.8 million of them were in the game, it was still lower than the record of 8.1 million concurrent players in the March 2020 game.

The games with the most concurrent players at the time of the record were CS: GO with 915,791 players, Dota 2 with 677,744 players, and PUBG with 344,841 players. New World, Apex Legends, Team Fortress 2, and Halo Infinite also helped increase the number of concurrent users. Cyberpunk 2077, meanwhile, is now the best-selling globally and has garnered a recent review rating of ‘Very Positive’, which comes shortly after CD Projekt Red president Adam Kiciński said it would become a “very good game. “

Thanksgiving weekend always sees a large number of users on Steam. The platform is also in the middle of its fall sales. Take a look at some of the best deals“Which attracts more people than usual.” Those who managed to get their hands on new PC hardware at Black Friday sales might have been looking to test their new gear on some titles as well.

Steam has broken its record for concurrent users several times since the pandemic began early last year; For comparison, there were just over 17 million concurrent users on Steam in November 2019, 10 million fewer than yesterday. The previous concurrent record was set at February 2021, when 26.4 million people signed up for the service.