Steam Player Count and Stats (2024)

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Steam Player Count and Stats

Steam StatsHere are a few of the most interesting Steam stats I was able to dig up. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated Steam stats become available.

Steam player count:

132 million monthly active players (March 2022)


How many people use Steam Link?

2 million installs (May 2019)


Number of daily Steam users:

69 million daily active players (March 2022)


Number of Steam Deck’s sold in 2022:

1.6 million consoles


Number of verified games on Steam Deck:

4,000 games (July 2022)


Amount of time players spent in games on Steam in 2019:

2.5 million years


Average number of new Steam users per month:

1.5 million users (August 2017)


Number of Steam registered users:

125 million registered users (January 2018)


Number of Steam paying users:

27 million users (January 2018)


Number of Steam users in China:

30 million (October 2018)


Percentage of Steam sales in 2017 that come from North America:

34% (August 2017)


Percentage of the PC gaming market that Steam reportedly controls:

50-70% (February 2017)


Number of games available on Steam:

47,973 games (November 2020)

 

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Amount it would cost to purchase every game on Steam at full price:

$556,286.14  (November 2020)


Highest amount of concurrent Steam users so far:

33 million concurrent players (January 2023)


Top selling game on Steam in 2018:

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey


Average number of games owned per Steam user:

11.07 games (January 2018)


First game to have over 1 million concurrent players on Steam:

Dota 2


Percentage of Steam users that run some version of Windows:

96.44% (September 2018)


Percentage of Steam users that run MacOS:

2.87% (September 2018)


Percentage of Steam users that run Windows 10:

79% (February 2020)


Number of game titles that were added to Steam in 2017:

7,672 (January 2018)


Average number of new titles added to Steam daily in 2017:

21/day (January 2018)


During every month of 2020, there was an average of 2.6 million new purchasers on Steam.


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