The major goal Steam has been building toward all year has been achieved: as of the morning of January 2, 2021, the number of concurrent users on Steam surpassed 25 million. To be exact, the highest record was 25,415,080, according to the SteamDB tracker. This is the highest record for the New Year, when it is clear that more people than ever are playing PC games through the platform.

However, as with last month's record, users reported as in-game failed to break the record set in the last week of March of this year: in March, some 8.1 million players were in the game, while today's game had only 7.4 million participants. Nevertheless, today's goal continues to be led by Valves free-to-play games, with CS:GO recording over 1 million as usual, Dota 2 approaching 700,000, and PUBG clearing 400,000. such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Stardew Valley. Single-player games contributed to the top 10 among perennially popular games like GTAV and Rust.

With this barrier broken, Steam's numerical exploits seem to be becoming more "inevitable" than "news"; we'll report back once Steam reaches 30 million players, or even 10 million online and in-game, in 2021, As for the "fall-back" thing, people will be staying home and working from home.

Sorry to jinx it!