Steam launched in 2003 — and as recently as 2015, it had broken the record for concurrent users on the service after reaching 10 million people, as reported by Kotaku (it grew to 14 million in 2017, and by March 2020 had reached 20 million).
But now it has jumped 50% over just two and a half years:
“We hit 28 million users earlier this year — more than the populations of countries like Australia and Taiwan — and now, at the end of October, we've hit the 30 million mark, with a peak of 30.032.005 users logging in earlier today. XNUMX.
Note that this is not the number of people currently playing, but the number of people logged into the platform, which is often achieved simply by turning on your computer.
If you want to know the number of users playing at any given time, the SteamDB data puts the "ceiling" at around 8,5 million people, which is still a huge number and a big jump (relatively) even from early 2022, when the highest number of active players was “between seven and eight million”.
