Steam Reaches 40 Million Concurrent Players for the First Time After Monster Hunter Wilds Launch

Steam, Valve’s widespread PC video games storefront, has crossed 40 million concurrent customers for the primary time. Propelled by Monster Hunter Wilds’ wildly profitable launch on February 28, the platform surpassed the milestone over the weekend, logging over 40 million gamers on-line. Steam has seen an upward trajectory within the variety of gamers and set a file of 39.9 million customers in February.

Steam Hits 40 Million Concurrent Gamers

The platform reached a peak concurrent person rely of 40,270,997 on Sunday, breaking its earlier file and crossing the 40 million mark for the primary time in its 21-year historical past. In line with SteamDB charts, the quantity includes 12,812,379 gamers in-game — one other file for the storefront.

Steam reached the milestone on the again of the launch of Capcom’s Monster Hunter Wilds on February 28. The action-RPG, which was launched throughout PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X, hit a million concurrent gamers on Steam on the primary day of its launch, turning into one of many most played games of all time on Valve’s platform.

The sport surpassed all-time peak participant counts of widespread video games like Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy and Baldur’s Gate 3. On the time of writing, Monster Hunter Wilds is now the fifth most performed sport of all time on Steam, behind solely PUBG: Battlegrounds, Black Fable: Wukong, Palworld and Counter-Strike 2.

Steam stays the most well-liked PC video games storefront forward of Epic Games Store and Microsoft store. Earlier this month, Epic had reported that its day by day energetic customers peaked at 37.2 million in 2024. This quantity, nevertheless, is totally different from concurrent participant rely, which refers to variety of gamers on-line on the similar time on a platform.

Epic Video games Retailer’s common day by day energetic person rely was 31.5 million in 2024. The Steam rival additionally crossed the milestone of 295 million Epic Video games Retailer PC customers within the final 12 months.