Having turned 20 final yr and being a dominant power in digital PC gaming, it’s laborious to think about Steam received off to a rocky begin when it launched in 2003. Nonetheless, right here we’re, and the Valve service continues to reign supreme, because it reaches one other concurrent participant milestone.

In accordance with the most recent figures from SteamDB, 34,649,583 gamers had been utilizing Steam over the weekend. To place that into perspective (not that it actually wants it), Worldometer reveals the inhabitants of the UK is over 67.8 million folks. This implies Steam’s new document was roughly half of the UK populace.

This may partly due to the continuing Dinos vs. Robots sale (in addition to the numerous occasions that happen all year long), which ends at this time. Who is aware of, nevertheless it goes to show that PC gaming within the fashionable period is exhibiting no indicators of slowing down.

Some had been twiddling their thumbs, although

Okay, so 34.6 million is a staggering quantity. Nonetheless, of these, solely (“solely“) 11.1 million had been truly in-game, in keeping with the breakdown beneath the graph. In complete, the quantity equates to a 3.8% improve over February 2024. There. That’s a bit of additional statistic for ya.

Initially constructed as a method for folks to replace Valve video games over the web, lots of people struggled to adapt to the digital adjustments that had been about to occur in gaming. Because of this, Steam was not highly regarded throughout its early years.

That appears inconceivable today what with how the trade operates. These days, we in all probability couldn’t think about a world through which we are able to’t immediately obtain a recreation or a much-needed patch, particularly given the state some releases are in on launch day.