For the second time this year, Steam has set a new record for concurrent users

There is clearly no obstacle to Steam's continued growth. Valve's digital PC store and social platform set a new record on Sunday with a staggering 43,505,724 users (via SteamDB). Read more

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For the second time this year, Steam has set a new massive concurrent user record

Clearly, there is no stopping Steam from continuing to grow. Valve's PC digital store and social platform hit a new record on Sunday with a staggering 43,505,724 million users (via SteamDB).

Yes, that's over 43 million simultaneous online players worldwide, both in-game and offline. By the way, the number of players in the game reached more than 14 million people, which is a new record.

This is the highest number of concurrent users in Steam's 23-year history. It's also the second time Valve's platform has broken its record this year, attracting more than 42 million concurrent players in January.

The Steam Fall Sale recently ended, so it's strange that the new record was set shortly after and not during the sale. That said, the past few weeks have seen the release of a number of popular games, most notably the free-to-play global release of MMO Aion 2, which peaked at 397,905 concurrent players at launch.

Steam's list of the top ten most played games remains mostly the same outside of that, save for a big jump in Deadlock numbers (262,145 concurrent peaks) on the back of a big update. Deadlock is Valve's third-person MOBA-shooter hybrid, which the developer has yet to officially announce.

All of these are signs of the continued expansion of Steam and its unshakable dominance of the PC space. Of course, all that user traffic turns into revenue for Valve. According to recent estimates, Valve has earned $15 billion (around £11.10 billion) from Steam through September, with Forza Horizon 6 the biggest new Steam release this year in terms of revenue.