It is the primary weekend of the 12 months, and everybody’s taking part in video games it appears, as Steam has simply seen a brand new all-time consumer peak.
As noticed over on Resetera, a few hours in the past Steam hit a brand new all-time concurrent consumer report about a few hours in the past (on the time of writing), a whopping determine of 33,675,229 gamers. To be clear, that is simply gamers logged in to Steam, not essentially truly in-game. Funnily sufficient, although, Steam truly broke that report yesterday, with 10,837,140 gamers truly taking part in one thing, an equally spectacular determine.
The earlier concurrent report for gamers simply logged in was again in March 2023, slightly below 100,000 lower than in the present day’s report, so it is fairly the rise. Why this weekend of all weekends there are such a lot of folks sign-in to Steam is anybody’s guess, although my very own can be that with most individuals again at work being reminded of the stresses of on a regular basis life, the avid gamers amongst us wanted to unwind that little bit greater than standard. There’s additionally all these new Steam Decks that Santa would have handed out over Christmas too, which is able to doubtless have helped ship the report.
Whereas it is unlikely to have inspired this many extra gamers to log in than regular, Steam has additionally launched the flexibility to conceal which video games are in your library by the service’s beta consumer. That is proper, you now not must be embarrassed that you simply added Overwatch to your Steam library anymore!
The Steam Awards outcomes had been additionally revealed earlier this week, with Starfield taking house the “most revolutionary gameplay” award for some cause, one thing that even baffled the sport’s followers. Recreation of the 12 months went to Baldur’s Gate 3 to the shock of nobody, and the shock indie hit Deadly Firm took house the cutely named “higher with associates” award.