That's a big number.

Steam saw another record high this weekend for concurrent players online. On Sunday June 30, 2024, Steam saw a peak concurrent player count of 36,927,213 right around 1PM ET. This high is no doubt at least partially fueled by the Steam Summer Sale that kicked off earlier in the week.

SteamDB reports that the peak hit a high of 36,928,521 for concurrent players on Sunday. The difference between SteamDB's peak and Valve's own peak reporting could be simply due to the difference in how often the data is updated at each site. Valve updates their public facing charts every 30 minutes while SteamDB updates their charts every 10 minutes.

Before this weekend's record, the previous peak concurrent happened in March. This is when Steam hit either 36,339,520 players or 36,354,393 depending on where and when you looked.

It will be interesting to see if the record is broken again next weekend when those in the States will presumably be on a long holiday break for July 4th.