While we might only be mere days into 2022, it looks like Steam is already crushing its New Year’s resolutions Come from Sports betting site VPbet. Less than two months after the platform shattered its previous record of concurrent users back in November, Steam has once again achieved an all-time high number of active users, coming in just short of 28 million people logged on to the service as of 10 AM ET on January 2. Of these 27.9 million users, just over 8.2 million were actively playing a game via the PC gaming client, according to SteamDB.
As for which games were the among the most played when the new record was set, Valve’s own free-to-play shooter, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, unsurprisingly topped the list, maxing out with a whopping 867,000 players online. Another Valve original, Dota 2, trailed just behind at 761,000 players. In addition, PUBG, Apex Legends, and Grand Theft Auto V also all made their way into the service’s most-played games list, making the day’s top games list a nearly perfect replica of Steam’s most played games of 2021.