10 Video Games With The Highest Simultaneous Active Players On The Steam

After the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 in recent days, we review the list with the titles that have achieved the most simultaneous players in the history of Valve’s digital platform.

In recent days, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been making news thanks to the large amount of content offered by Larian’s new work and also to its impact among PC players, which has made it one of the titles with the most simultaneous players on Steam. Precisely taking advantage of the occasion, we want to review the 10 most-played titles in the history of Valve’s digital platform in a ranking in which you may find some small surprises and a number 1 that, to this day, seems unbeatable.

10. Goose Goose Duck – 702,845 players

Of the 10 titles with the most simultaneous players on Steam, perhaps one of the most particular is Goose Goose Duck, a social deduction title in which we must control a goose to do all kinds of missions and bother the staff. Although at first the title went somewhat unnoticed, on January 12 of this year it reached its peak of players thanks to its success on Twitch.

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9. Baldur’s Gate 3 – 814,666 players

Larian has finally released the final version of Baldur’s Gate 3, the continuation of one of the most emblematic sagas of the role that, after three years on the Steam early access platform, has officially gone on sale, reaping a resounding success among the players willing to enter Faerûn, achieving its maximum peak of simultaneous players on August 6, 814,666, sneaking into this TOP 10.

8. Hogwarts Legacy – 879,308 players

That this title set in the Harry Potter universe was going to be a complete success was quite predictable and few of us were surprised that it almost immediately became one of the most notable titles in the history of the Valve platform, achieving its maximum peak of sales. players on February 12, 2023, two days after its release.

7. New World – 913,634 players

Time for MMOs on this list with New World, the Amazon Games title that managed to garner great interest in its various betas and which resulted in an incredible initial boom in players, staying very close to a million simultaneous users attracted by a title somewhat different from traditional MMORPGs, although the lack of content caused the number of players to drop significantly a few months after its release.

6. Elden Ring – 953,426 players

From Software has earned a great reputation among gamers for the Souls saga or other works like Bloodborne or Sekiro. Therefore, it was not surprising that his biggest work to date, Elden Ring, was one of the most anticipated titles of 2022 and it was also no surprise that on March 5 of last year, it reached its peak number of players, 953,426 left him at the gates of a TOP 5 that he may achieve in the future if we finally see a DLC as an expansion for it.

5. Cyberpunk 2077 – 1,054,388 players

The expectation that CD Projekt RED raised at the time with Cyberpunk 2077 was rewarded with 1,054,388 million players the same day the title was released on our computers. The launch, as many of you will remember, was full of bugs, which didn’t stop many players from being equally interested in a very special work that will shortly be releasing its first and only expansion, Phantom Liberty.

4. DOTA 2 – 1,295,114 players

DOTA 2 is one of those eternal games that is not that it is one of the ones that has gathered the most players on Steam, but that currently, and despite being 10 years old, it continues to be one of the most played titles every day. on the Valve platform. For many, it is the best free-to-play MOBA on the market and its peak number of players was reached in 2015 together with the New Flowering Festival to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

3. Lost Ark – 1,325,305 players

The massive role-playing and action game of Smilegate RPG had been a great success in Asia for a long time, which attracted the interest of Amazon Games, which on February 11, 2022, published it in the West through Steam, reaping unprecedented success and surpassing, in fact, to the previous Amazon title also present in this ranking, New World. The day after its launch was when Lost Ark reached its peak of players with 1,325,305 people trying this free-to-play experience. 

2. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – 1,818,773 players

Another of the eternal games in this ranking is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the latest instalment in Valve’s competitive shooter saga that will release Counter-Strike 2 this summer to relegate CS:GO, a title that began its life as a paid title until in 2018 it changed its business model to free-to-play. Since its launch and especially after betting on the free model, this shooting title has not stopped growing and its record for simultaneous players dates from this year, specifically from May 1, a record that may be surpassed after the launch of CS2.

1. PUBG: Battlegrounds – 3,257,248 players

Battle royale games already existed before the arrival of PUBG: Battlegrounds, but it was Krafton’s title that sowed the seed that gave rise to this particular genre that now has many followers. The title, which has quite realistic mechanics for the genre, was launched on December 21, 2017, and was a resounding success, achieving a peak of more than 3 million players that have kept the record for 6 years. concurrent players in Steam history.