https://store.steampowered.com/charts/
Peak Online: 37,185,128
Date: 2026-05-19
A new record has been reached. And I feel like Saubnatica 2 and Forza Horizon 6 are partially responsible for this new peak. I don’t see anyone talking or posting about this new logged in users of Steam.
EDIT: Today it just got a new record again! A few hours after I posted this post, lol. To me stats and numbers are interesting. New numbers:
Peak Online: 37,497,703
Date: 2026-05-22
The power of monopoly
It’s less the power of monopoly and more the power of the only decent platform.
Steam is great and I love what they’re bringing.
Still I’m trying to buy 50% of my games on GOG because no monopoly is good and Steam still has DRM’s and no real transparency about it.
After killing the competition with exclusivity deals and shoehorning itself into physical copies as DRM.
I know you weren’t born when that happened, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Steam / Valve doesn’t do exclusivity deals.
Except they kinda did.
They pay publishers to use Steam as DRM for physical releases.
If you wanted to play the game on PC, you needed Steam.
First, this is not what you said earlier, its a different statement. Also… where do you get that Valve pays publishers to use Steam as DRM? And therefore forces them a kind of exclusivity deal? No, Valve does not do that.
Got a source on them paying publishers for that?
The power of open platform
Steam used exclusivity deals and anyone selling a game on Steam can’t turn round and sell it at a lower price elsewhere.
Steam didn’t do exclusivity deals.