The company reported that in 2020, Steam drew approximately 2.6 million new game buyers per month, and that game purchases on Steam increased by 21.4 percent compared to the previous year.
Throughout the year, the most popular games regularly reach several hundred thousand concurrent players on average. Other popular titles of 2020 were the long-awaited action RPG Cyberpunk 2077, and battle royale favorite PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. CS:GO was first published in 2012 and has enjoyed constant popularity since then. The multiplayer first person-shooter was ranked first in terms of peak concurrent users, topping out at over 1.3 million simultaneous players worldwide. The biggest game on Steam in 2020 was Counter Strike: Global Offensive.
The platform has managed to retain its post-COVID momentum and continues to grow its active audiences - this is evidenced by the stable rate of peak concurrent in-game users of approximately 7 million per month. In April 2021, Steam reached a record peak of over 26.9 million concurrent users after steadily increasing its user figures during the global coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Moreover, the peak number of users on the platform at the same time, also called peak concurrent users, has been on a steady increase as well. In 2020, Steam reported an estimated 120 million monthly active users worldwide, an increase from 90 million just two years earlier.
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