Steam is the most used gaming platform worldwide. It’s not just a store; you can connect your friends with Steam and discover content related to the games you play. This makes Steam unique because its rivals, like Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Connect, don’t offer many features except buying games. Even if there are many options to buy a game, Steam is usually the first choice for gamers. As there are many reasons to play on Steam, the service’s player count is way too high. And for the first time, the Steam player count passes ten million in-game users, which is a big milestone.
Steam Player Count Reaches Ten Million Users
Free-to-play games are the primary source that Steam gets users from. Even if the game’s publisher has a separate client, many gamers choose Steam to stay connected with their friends and save the achievements to a place they use every day. This caused Steam to get active in-game users, around 7-9 million users. And today, the player count exceeded 10 million users. It’s likely will increase in a few weeks because there’s a big wave on the platform, and we could expect more users on the weekends.
As it does for most things lately, Elden Ring has contributed to this. The game was chosen by GOTY 2022 for most of the awards, and then it got a considerable discount. There is a big wave of players trying the game for the first time, and that wave might continue for a few more weeks. Another reason is that the Steam Winter Sale has just ended, and people are trying the games they bought. Some of them have many different games to try or get addicted in. We always see an increase in the player count after the sale ends. But this time, other factors are increasing the in-game user count.
