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For the sixth time this year, Steam has broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent players ever recorded on Steam.<\/p>\n

Steam saw an unprecedented number of players concurrently online back when the pandemic first surged, resulting in millions of people going into lockdown. Before today, the highest concurrent player count seen on Steam was 22 million users<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Now, according to SteamDB<\/a> (thanks, PC Gamer<\/a>), Valve’s PC platform has hit another record high, with 24,776,635 concurrent users on the service yesterday. <\/p>\n

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For the sixth time this year, Steam has broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent players ever recorded on Steam. Steam saw an unprecedented number of players concurrently online back when the pandemic first surged, resulting in millions of people going into lockdown. Before today, the highest concurrent player count seen on Steam was 22 million users. Now, according to SteamDB (thanks, PC Gamer), Valve’s PC platform has hit another record high, with 24,776,635 concurrent users on the service yesterday. 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