Steam Gains 27 Million New Players

In the past eighteen months, game distribution platform Steam grew by 27 million new players. The service also boasts a record-breaking peak of 14 million concurrent users, 33 million daily active players, and 67 million monthly active players. For context, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live feature 70 million and 53 million monthly active users, respectively. Steam revealed the news at the recent Casual Connect gaming conference (via GeekWire).

Full Steam Ahead

GeekWire’s Taylor Soper reports:

“Steam, the preeminent “app store” for PC games, now counts 67 million monthly active players. That’s more than the 53 million monthly active users Microsoft reported for Xbox Live last quarter. Steam also has 33 million daily active players. (Apart from monthly active users, Steam’s total user base is much larger: Valve reported 125 million total active lifetime users last year.)

Another sign of growth: Steam is averaging 14 million concurrent users per day at peak — that’s up from 8.4 million in 2015, according to the presentation this week.”

27 Million New Players

Soper writes:

“New gamers are flocking to Steam as well. There have been 27 million first-time purchasers — those who created a Steam account and bought a game, or downloaded a free game and made a transaction for the first time — since January 2016. That’s nearly 1.5 million users per month.”

Tom Giardino of Valve’s Development and Marketing Department added:

“There are lots of users coming into Steam every day.”

GeekWire’s report features a more in-depth breakdown of Steam’s recent growth.