Steam hits another all-time user record with over 40 million online

By Liam Dawe - 2 Mar 2025 at 5:51 pm UTC
Last updated: 2 Mar 2025 at 8:19 pm UTC

Over the weekend Steam managed to break yet another concurrent online user record, smashing the previous that was set back in December 2024.

According to SteamDB, just after 2PM UTC today Steam hit 40,270,997 online with 12,727,475 actually in-game playing something. The most popular games over the last 24 hours in terms of most players online were:

Counter-Strike 2
Monster Hunter Wilds
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Dota 2
Marvel Rivals

The release of Monster Hunter Wilds has certainly helped with the numbers here, as it's been a huge release for Capcom. It's seen a 24 hour peak player count of 1,373,805 online at the same time.

Some history for you of recent milestones of people online:

Do you think 2025 is going to be another repeating record-breaking year for Valve?

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, Steam, Valve

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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. You can also follow my personal adventures on Bluesky.
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