Steam Surpassed 40 Million Concurrent Users this Past Weekend

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  • Published: 03-03-2025, 01:24 PM
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  • Steam Surpassed 40 Million Concurrent Users this Past Weekend

    About .5% of the world's population was using Steam at the same time.
    Chart showing concurrent users of Steam, showing a peak of over 40 million concurrent users.

    On a boring weekend where there were no major holidays or events to warrant it, Steam yet again set a new concurrent user record. On Sunday, March 2, 2025 Valve's digital storefront saw a concurrent user peak of over 40 million people logged in at one time.

    According to Valve's official charts, the exact peak was 40,272,727. This does differ ever so slightly from what SteamDB reports as the peak, which was 40,270,997. I believe the small discrepancy comes down to when exactly the data is pulled, especially from SteamDB.

    In September 2024, Steam first cracked the 38 million concurrent user mark. In early December 2024, Steam then surpassed the 39 million mark for concurrent users.
    Tags: concurrent users, record, steam
      • azalea
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        azalea commented
        03-03-2025, 06:56 PM
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        Isn't that around 0.5%?
        • Shawn Zipay
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          Shawn Zipay commented
          03-03-2025, 08:55 PM
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          Yeah, something like that. I really think I just had the "8" from "8 billion" estimate for the world population in my head and just put that digit in by mistake when typing here.
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