Steam surpasses record player count
Steam tracker SteamDB has revealed that the popular gaming platform has recently surpassed its own record for player counts by a huge margin, with 18.8 million users currently active compared to 2018's previous record 18.5 million. The number of players concurrently in a game, however, did not surpass the 2018 record, with 5.8 million players against 2018's 7 million players.
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