Overview
- Steam surpassed 40 million concurrent users for the first time on March 2, 2025, with 12.8 million users actively playing games at the peak.
- Monster Hunter Wilds played a significant role in the milestone, reaching over 1.3 million concurrent players and becoming the fifth most-played game in Steam's history.
- Steam's user base has doubled in size over the last five years, highlighting the continued growth and dominance of PC gaming over consoles.
- Despite its success, Monster Hunter Wilds has faced criticism for performance issues on PC, with many players reporting frame rate dips and other technical problems.
- Steam's growth remains unmatched by competitors like Epic Games Store, which reported 32 million daily active users in 2024, far below Steam's concurrent peak.