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

  • 𝓜𝓲𝓪@quokk.auEnglish
    82·
    11 hours ago

    It’s less the power of monopoly and more the power of the only decent platform.

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      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.

    • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 hours ago

      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.

        • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          3 hours ago

          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.

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            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.