Steam has just set a new record for its concurrent players. As SteamData indicates, there were over 27 million concurrent players on November 27th.
Steam’s previous record (26 million concurrent players) was set back in February 2021. My guess is that Steam’s Autumn Sale is the event that allowed Valve’s platform to set this new record.
SteamData has also shared the Top 20 most played games when Steam set its new record.
The most played game was Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, followed by Dota 2, PUBG Battlegrounds and Apex Legends. New World was in fifth place, followed by GTA5, Team Fortress 2 and NARAKA: BLADEPOINT. It’s also worth noting that the recently released Halo Infinite was also at the Top 20.
Below you can find the full list of the top twenty most played games!
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I think it’s the Autumn Sale that pushed Steam to the new record as well. It’s a pretty decent sale.
True, Cyberpunk at 29.99, Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy 38,99, Days gone 29,99, The Witcher 3 GOTY 9,99. It’s a pretty decent sale not gonna lie.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. AAA games for peanuts.
Because both Cyberpunk and Days Gone are crap games probably.
Cyberpunk is a broken mess. But Days Gone is a great game to waste time on.
Because this website is full of crybabies. I didn’t even say that i like/dislike those games. Just giving an exemple of good deals for AAA games.
Because those are junk trash apart from Witcher 3 but that one is years old and best bought on GOG.
In spite of GPU unavailability at lower prices, PC Gaming only gets stronger. This is why companies like Sony will also sell their 1st Party games on PC as well, there’s just many more PC players than there’s Xbox or PSN players. PCMR.
I just hope they bring out those games to PC faster than they have till now. I really wanna play Horizon Forbidden West, haha.
Imagine how much higher that number would be if it wasnt for all the things that transpired these last 2 years.
Like a mid range card now is the price of a full blown high end pc from just a few years back. I remember when people used to say Titan cards are for rich people, now i have to shell out roughly 2000 euros for a rtx 3070 rofl.
Yup it’s a fact. So happy to see even anticonsumer POS Sony – FINALY – get that!
Pc all the way or GTFO. Simple as that!
Im all done with consoles myself. ps4 pro was the last, and have own most since the NES days, but allways hated the restricted weak HW!
Pc is all thats needed these days 😀
I haven’t seen any indication that Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PC, but I hope it does.
New GPU and new consoles are unfaffordable due to mining and inflation, so people are sticking to their PC or old console.
These are the most used GPU for October 2021 on Steam, pretty much all GPU from a few years ago that show people are not buying new GPU.
In fact there isn’t even a single new GTX series 30** card in the top 10, even though the series was launched more than year ago. The most popular 30** series card is the 3070 with a pitiful 1.52% of the Steam GPU market share.
The large majority of Steam users have dual core and quad core CPU, people are simply no longer upgrading their system because it’s unaffordable.
Yes, so developers just need to optimize their games better and stop aiming at rtx3090 users.
Developers use slowest console as target hardware. In this generation slowest console is Xbox Series S (299 usd). You can build such PC and run all games on Xbox Series S quality for next 5 years
– GPU: Radeon 6600 – 24 CU RDNA2
– CPU: Ryznen 3700X – 8 core, 16 threads at sustained 3.6 GHz
– SSD: SSD NVME 4.0 – 2.5 GB/s read speed
“series s is actually below a ryzen 5 3600”
That CPU have only 6 cores so it can’t be compared to Xbox Series S which have 8 cores and 16 threads.
You need remember that on PC your CPU is used also by Windows, Steam, Denuvo and other apps like Discord. If you have only 6 cores on CPU then 2 of those cores are wasted on background jobs. Your games can access only 4 CPU. On consoles there are less background jobs so from 8 core CPU games can still access 7 cores.
its not inflation its the chip shortage but yea
its not inflation its the chip shortage but yea
With the ridiculous gouging by ngreedia and others for various reasons( muh covid etc) people who won’t or can’t spend on 3xxx cards just turn down the settings or focus on lower spec or better optimized games such as the avalanche of indies that are lite but just as fun as heavy graphical hot messes like cp77, hzd, wl etc Simple indie games also feature much less Marxist propaganda(antithesis) and also usually less central bankster/monopoly corps.(thesis) slavery/thievery. Recent xx60 cards just make the most sense usually, can play most games high/ultra 1080p 60+, med/high 2k60, and 30fps 4k. xx50 series are just a ripoff for the ignorant. I’ve said this before but it’s called steam because it’s a vent/control mechanism, if you see the valve logo with it coming out of the guys eye you get the meaning, directly to the brain, the steam logo is just a different version. Also the mirror image is kabbalistic, we all probably see “meats” in there, you are the carrion for the vultures, my friends.
I really don’t understand why Counter Strike continues to be played by so many people!
Wake up, people! there are far better games out there!
Can you make a sensible comment at least once? try it, it’s not hard idaiot!
Filled with tons of multiplayer games…smh
Well, it’s the Christmas Season now so………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIwLeASnkw
funny i never played any of the games on that list XD
i use em regularly never got even a warning. just dont link piracy stuff nor use slurs obviously (which i think its the part youve gotten issues with)