In early January 2026, while the winter sale was underway, Steamset a new online record. At that time, the peak was 41.8 million concurrent users.
This weekend, the Valve service set another record - online activity exceeded 42 million players for the first time.
According to SteamDB, at the time the record was set, 13,119,473 accounts had the status "in game" out of 42,042,778 users.
For comparison, the online presence in January 2025 was at the level of 37 - 38 million.