Steam Yesterday he managed to break his own record for simultaneous active users, not necessarily gaming. Valve’s extremely popular platform is consolidating, although not without dips, its upward trend long after the COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted in much of the world, showing its strength and the support it has from players.

Steam has been flirting with 30 million concurrent active users for a long time, as we heard it surpassed 29 million in January of this year. Now SteamDB has updated its logs to show, at least according to Valve, that the platform is still in top form and will hold up well against the competition exceeded, if only slightly, the amount of 30 million.

Although it may not seem like it, Steam did not have an easy beginning, and what’s more, its client was first massively rejected by users, because it was a way to tie them to a platform that still lived and lives connected to the Internet. However, the passage of time proved Valve right, as Steam was the platform on which PC games were supported, which during the first decade of the 21st century began to show signs of being able to really die, in addition to the springboard for the indie scene that diversified the offer games and fixed the use of controllers on PC.

Steam has evolved over the years, first reaching Mac, then Linux, and now it’s trying to be an ecosystem that competes with Microsoft, while Windows continues to be the main platform. Valve was serious about being more independent from the Redmond giant, so it has developed its own operating system based on GNU/Linux, SteamOS, in addition to launching various products around it. First the Steam Machines and the Steam Controller, which were commercially unsuccessful, and later the Steam Deck, whose reception was much more positive.

In short, and despite the presence of more competitors, Steam is still in top form according to the numbers published by Valve, which shows that the number of active users continues to grow even after such a favorable context as incarceration. by COVID-19.