Most Concurrent Players on Steam (All-Time Peak)

About This Dataset

This chart ranks Steam games by their all-time peak number of players online at the same moment, as tracked by SteamDB. Each figure is the single highest concurrent player count the game has ever recorded.

✨ AI Insight

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.

Source: SteamDB (via DualShockers compilation)

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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PUBG: Battlegrounds leads with 3,257,248 in All Time.

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Average value in All Time: 1,738,911 · median: 1,384,608.

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Gap in All Time: PUBG: Battlegrounds is 3.4× larger than Elden Ring.