Steam isn't slowing down in 2026, as Valve's platform smashes its concurrent user record for the third time in three months

Concurrent users reached 42,318,602 reported by SteamDB.

Steam concurrent user record was broken three times within a three-month period.

Valve launched the Steam Deck and built an ecosystem around the online store, valve released hardware and ecosystem products.

Epic Games Store became a rival to Steam in 2018 competing storefront since 2018.

Steam users may have Steam open without actively playing games some Steam users keep the client set to start automatically.