Steam Hits New Record: 42 Million Concurrent Users

Steam set a new platform record yesterday, with Valve’s PC game distributing platform, surpassing 42 million concurrent users as confirmed by SteamDB. The previous record was 41.6 million set only a few months ago in October 2025. 

We all know that the Pandemic was a massive boon for gaming, with Steam showing a 31.5% from March 2020 to February 2021, with peak player count growing from 20 million to 26.3 million. However, Steam has been able to maintain a high amount of growth following the COVID. From 2017-2020, Steam saw an average of 4.5% growth per year. In the year following the pandemic, 2021-2022, Steam had a staggering 13.9% growth, and from 2022–2026 that number has remained in the ballpark, averaging 12.6% growth per year.

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Not only are players still hoping on Steam in droves, players are buying up games in the billions, with Alinea Analytics posting estimates that December 2025 was the best December ever for Steam. The platform generated an estimated $1.6 billion last month, a 22.7% increase from last year and beating out the previous record December of $1.4 billion in December 2020. 

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