Despite increasing competition, Steamy It shows it’s still in top form after surpassing 33 million simultaneous active users on the platform yesterday, with more than 10 million of them playing. The Valve platform thus again surpasses its best record, which already exceeded 30 million last October 2022.

Again, the data is provided by SteamDB, an independent accountant that acts as a great reference for these topics. That Steam has linear growth seems impossible given its seniority and growing competition, but that it is able to surpass its own highs is a sign that it is very well up to the challenges of what has established itself as its great rival: Epic. Game store.

Seeing Steam with tens of millions of active users has not been unusual for a long time, but the reality is that it did not have an easy start at the beginning of the 21st century, when many users rejected it because it was a way to keep them tied to a particular platform that also lived and continues to live connected to the Internet. Despite initial criticism and rejection, Valve persisted with the idea and gave it a reason over time. The jump to digital support revitalized the PC, which was in decline at the time, and allowed an indie scene to emerge to solidify the use of controllers on a platform still dominated by keyboard and mouse.

The rest of the story is already known. Steam expanded the horizons for support Mac first and then move to Linux. Support for the latter system was a response to Microsoft’s intention to centralize the distribution of applications through its own store. Far from being a gallery-facing movement, Valve persisted in that direction to the extreme to launch their own distribution and their own consoles, although they didn’t finish pressing the key on a commercial level until the Steam Deck came out.

Dive into the top, Steam reached 33,078,963 concurrent users with 10,284,568 playing. It remains to be seen if the platform will beat itself again, which seems difficult at least on paper, but looking at the trend of the last few months, it looks plausible.