Peak online on Steam exceeds 37 million for the first time in history, apparently thanks to Black Myth: Wukong

Less than a few months later, Valve’s digital distribution service Steam set a new personal record for the number of concurrent users online.

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Let us remind you that at the height of the large-scale summer sale at the end of June, official and unofficial statistics recorded more than 36.9 million concurrent Steam users online.

As it became known, on August 25 at around 17:00 Moscow time, the peak online Steam reached 37,263,382 people. According to SteamDB, the figure was even slightly higher – 37,266,324.

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Along with the new overall record, Steam also updated the best figure for simultaneously online players – according to SteamDB, the day before it reached 12.5 million (11.7 million at the end of June).

The most popular games at the time the Steam record was achieved were Black Myth: Wukong, Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds and Wallpaper Engine, a tool for creating animated and interactive wallpapers.

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Journalists believe that the key to achieving a new record for Steam was the release of Black Myth: Wukong – the daily peak online of the Chinese action role-playing game does not fall below 2 million players.

In addition, in the week before the new record, Steam began to hide uninformative reviews – Valve launched testing of a new system for determining the usefulness of user reviews.