Most Concurrent Players on Steam (All-Time Peak)
Key Findings
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Most Concurrent Players on Steam (All-Time Peak)PUBG: Battlegrounds still holds the Steam concurrency record at about 3.26 million simultaneous players, a peak set in January 2018 that has stood for years despite many major launches since. The 2024 hit Black Myth: Wukong and the survival game Palworld follow at 2.42 and 2.10 million, showing that recent releases can approach but not surpass the record. Counter-Strike 2 leads the perennial live-service group at 1.86 million, while Monster Hunter Wilds, Lost Ark and Dota 2 cluster near 1.3-1.4 million. That so many different genres appear near the top demonstrates how viral launches and long-running competitive titles can generate comparable peak audiences on the platform.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- SteamDB (via DualShockers compilation)
- Coverage
- 9 entities · 9 observations
- Measure
- All-Time Peak Concurrent Players
- Last updated
- 16 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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