Steam breaks online player record again, soaring past Black Myth: Wukong heights

As the platform continues its decades-long run at the top of the PC market, Steam has once again broken its concurrent online player record, and it’s only been a month since the previous one.

Fueled initially by the massive popularity of Black Myth: Wukong, especially in the east and China, Steam previously rose to over 37,200,000 concurrently online users, and has now soared even past that to the incredible figure of 38,367,277 users, according to SteamDB. That is over a million users more than in August, which might still have to do with Black Myth: Wukong and the continuous rise of Steam in China and other countries of the far east.

The record was set on Sept. 22, and is a testament to Steam’s rising popularity and dominance over the PC market, as well as to the incredible presence Chinese players have attained in the previous few years. According to Steam’s hardware survey from this August, Simplified Chinese was the most used language on the platform, amounting to a whopping 35 percent of the total user base, making it no wonder why Black Myth: Wukong was so successful of a release on the platform.

Black Myth: Wukong peaked at 2,415,714 within a few days since launching, and even now maintains a firm spot among Steam’s top 10 most-played titles in terms of concurrent players. It regularly peaks at about 450,000 concurrent players every day and shows no significant signs of dwindling, though it is slowly but surely losing players as more and more people clear the game’s stellar campaign.

With 850,000 reviews on the storefront it has a 96 percent positive rating and is proof that even a single game can impact platforms as big as Valve’s Steam.