In October 2026, the number of concurrent users on Valve's Steam platform exceeded 43.5 million, setting a new record high. The peak in October 2025 was 41.6 million, marking another increase for the same period this year.
Looking further back, the peak number of concurrent users on Steam in October 2024 was 38.1 million, 31.3 million in October 2023, and 30.2 million in October 2022. Based on these figures for the same month, the peak has been rising year by year in recent years.
Earlier data shows that the peak in October 2021 was 26.5 million, and in October 2020 it was 23.1 million; the peaks for October 2019 and 2018 were 16.8 million and 16.3 million, respectively.
Going back to 2010, the peak number of concurrent users on Steam in October of that year was 2.9 million. Since then, this figure has gradually increased, exceeding 12 million in October 2015 and reaching 13 million in October 2016.