Counter-Strike 2 was the most popular game on Steam in June 2024. The multiplayer shooter game racked up an impressive 976,000 average concurrent players per week, which was more than competing titles Banana, Dota 2, and PUBG did.
What is Steam?
Steam is one of the top-grossing digital gaming content platforms worldwide. Initially created by Valve Corporation to update games such as Counter-Strike in 2003, the service has since expanded to include games from third-party developers and publishers. The platform also offers multiplayer gaming, digital rights management, social networking, and video streaming services, drawing millions of users from around the world each day. In 2020, the number of Steam users jumped from 95 to 120 million users per month, and in 2023, another high score was reached when the number of peak concurrent Steam users hit 33 million.
Counter Strike strikes again
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer first-person shooter game that pits two teams of terrorists and counter-terrorists against each other in different objective-based game modes. As the fourth game in the top-rated Counter-Strike series, CS:GO hit the shelves in 2012, and despite being on the market for almost a decade, the game is as popular as ever. In early 2020, CS:GO hit 24 million monthly active users, and that same year, the title topped the ranking of most played games on Steam at more than 1.3 million peak concurrent players. In September 2023, the long-awaited sequel Counter-Strike 2 was released as an upgrade to CS:GO, and replaced the title on Steam.
Most played games on Steam as of June 2024, by average number of concurrent players
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