Steam hits record 41.6 million concurrent users on October 12
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Key points
- Steam peaked at 41,666,348 concurrent users on October 12, 2025, a new record for Valve’s platform.
- The record coincided with Battlefield 6’s launch weekend, which crossed 700,000 concurrent players on Steam.
- Steam’s weekend records continue a two-year climb from 33.7M in January 2024 and 40.27M on March 2, 2025.
Steam set a new record on October 12 with 41,666,348 concurrent users, per Valve’s data. According to SteamDB, more than 13 million players were in-game at the time. Beyond the usual live service games like CS2, Dota 2, and PUBG, Battlefield 6 jumped into the charts with nearly 750,000 players.
Steam reached 41,666,348 concurrent users on Sunday, October 12, 2025, according to Valve’s stats page. This sets a new all-time high, surpassing the previous peak of 40,270,997 recorded on March 2, 2025, when Steam first crossed 40 million concurrent users.
According to SteamDB, 13,027,299 users were in-game during the record. Beyond the usual evergreen live-service games, Battlefield 6’s launch week helped lift platform activity. The game reached nearly 750,000 concurrent players on Steam on the launch day and maintained around 650,000 players for the weekend. That momentum aligned with the weekend’s Valve record and kept Battlefield 6 among the most played games on the day.
Top Steam games by 24-hour peak of concurrent players near the record window:
- Counter-Strike 2: 1,558,375.
- Dota 2: 861,090.
- PUBG: Battlegrounds: 666,946.
- Battlefield 6: 656,814.
- Delta Force: 221,212.
- Apex Legends: 182,420.
- Naraka: Bladepoint: 153,220.
- Rust: 149,197.
- Wallpaper Engine: 142,676 (not a game).
- Stardew Valley: 131,255.
Steam is Valve’s PC game distribution platform and storefront, launched in 2003, initially for Valve’s titles only. It is the largest platform in PC gaming by active users and catalog size, combining a store, a wide range of services (automatic updates, cloud saves, achievements, netcode provider, and more), and various community features (the Steam Workshop for mods, Marketplace for trading, etc.).
Steam runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and it also powers Valve’s handheld Steam Deck with SteamOS. The platform features regular seasonal sales, and big releases and updates typically land late in the work week, which, combined with the standard 5/2 work or education schedule, concentrates user activity on weekends.
