Steam usage and catalog stats

Steam is a massive video game distribution platform.

Launched in 2003, the service has gained popularity among gamers across the world.

Today, it has 132 million monthly active users and a catalog of over 200,000 games.

Read on to find the latest Steam stats for 2026.

Key Steam stats

• Steam has 132 million monthly active users.
• 69 million people use Steam daily.
• The Steam catalog in the US includes 234,984 games.
• 20,018 games were added to Steam in 2025.
• PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS holds the record for the most concurrent Steam players, peaking at 3.26 million.

Steam monthly active users

The latest credible source states that Steam had 132 million monthly active users (MAUs) as of 2021. More recent data is not publicly available.

The number of monthly active players on Steam has increased by 1.97x since 2017.

Here’s a table showing Steam’s monthly active user growth since 2017:

Year	Steam Monthly Active Users
2017	67 million
2018	90 million
2019	95 million
2020	120 million
2021	132 million

Source: Statista

Steam daily active users

According to the latest available data, Steam has 69 million daily active users.

That’s an increase from 62.6 million daily active players in 2020. More than half (52.27%) of MAUs access Steam at least once a day.

Source: Steam

Steam peak concurrent users

42.04 million users concurrently accessed Steam at one point in January 2026, marking an all-time peak to date.

The average daily peak for January 2026 was 36.74 million concurrent users.

We’ve charted the growth in Steam’s peak concurrent user count since January 2007:

Date	Steam Peak Concurrent Users
January 2007	313,000
January 2008	1.27 million
January 2009	1.68 million
January 2010	2.7 million
January 2011	3.52 million
January 2012	5.07 million
January 2013	6.61 million
January 2014	7.81 million
January 2015	8.6 million
January 2016	12.52 million
January 2017	14.37 million
January 2018	18.54 million
January 2019	17.53 million
January 2020	18.33 million
January 2021	25.43 million
January 2022	29.2 million
January 2023	33.08 million
January 2024	33.68 million
January 2025	39.34 million
January 2026	42.04 million

Source: SteamDB

Total hours played on Steam

The most recent data on total hours played comes from 2021. Steam users logged 37.87 billion hours of playtime that year.

Playtime has grown by 21% since 2020, outdoing the 10.2% growth in MAUs.

Source: Steam

How many new games are added to Steam each year?

A total of 20,018 games were released on Steam in 2025.

Here’s a table showing the annual number of Steam game releases since 2006:

Year	Steam Game Releases
2006	71
2007	136
2008	242
2009	379
2010	275
2011	280
2012	302
2013	435
2014	1,715
2015	2,827
2016	4,664
2017	6,942
2018	8,980
2019	8,112
2020	9,175
2021	11,341
2022	12,472
2023	14,534
2024	18,626
2025	20,018

Source: SteamDB

Steam’s US game library

Steam’s US library contains 234,984 titles across all categories.

This includes add-on content like mods and soundtracks.

146,012 games are available to play on Steam as of January 2026.

Source: Steam

What are the most played games on Steam?

Ranked by all-time peak concurrent users, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is the most-played game on Steam.

Black Myth: Wukong and Palworld round out the top 3.

Here’s a complete list of the top 15 most popular games on Steam:

Game	All-Time Peak Concurrent Users
PUGS: BATTLEGROUNDS	3.26 million
Black Myth: Wukong	2.42 million
Palworld	2.1 million
Counter-Strike 2	1.86 million
Monster Hunter Wilds	1.38 million
Lost Ark	1.33 million
Dota 2	1.3 million
Cyberpunk 2077	1.05 million
ELDEN RING	0.95 million
Banana	0.92 million
New World: Aeternum	0.91 million
Hogwarts Legacy	0.88 million
Baldur’s Gate 3	0.88 million
Battlefield™ 6	0.75 million
Goose Goose Duck	0.7 million

Source: SteamDB

Steam games by genre

As of January 2026, the Steam library includes 119,237 indie games, more than any other genre. Action, casual, and adventure are also popular categories, each with over 80,000 titles.

We’ve charted the number of games on Steam by genre:

Genre	Steam Games
Indie	119,237
Action	98,660
Casual	92,391
Adventure	88,878
Simulation	63,197
RPG	57,785
Strategy	53,073

Source: SteamDB

Steam users with VR headsets

Steam survey data suggests that 1.64% of users have VR headsets.

Among Steam users with VR headsets, 27.58% use Meta Quest 3.

Here’s a breakdown of Steam users who own VR headsets by model:

VR Headset	Share of Steam Users
Meta Quest 3	27.58%
Oculus Quest 2	24.84%
Valve Index HMD	13.35%
Meta Quest 3S	9.46%
Oculus Rift S	4.52%
Pico 4	3.34%
HTC Vive	2.87%
Windows Mixed Reality	2.42%
Other	11.8%

Source: Steam

Steam users by OS

The vast majority (66.6%) of Steam users access the platform on Windows 11 64 bit.

Here’s the full breakdown of Steam users by operating system:

Operating System	Share of Steam Users
Windows 11 64 bit	66.6%
Windows 10 64 bit	27.51%
MacOS 26.1.0 64 bit	0.65%
Other	5.24%

Source: Steam

Video cards among Steam users

73.28% of Steam users on PC have a video card made by NVIDIA.

AMD and Intel account for a further 18.53%.

Here’s a comprehensive overview of PC video cards among the Steam user base:

Brand	Share of Steam Users
NVIDIA	73.28%
AMD	18.53%
Intel	7.81%
Other	0.38%

Source: Steam

What these Steam numbers tell us

Steam is a mature platform with deep daily engagement, a growing concurrent user base, and a catalog that keeps expanding faster than most users can browse. For the gaming industry, it remains the default storefront for PC.

For more data on the platforms and communities that overlap with Steam’s audience:

• Discord user and growth statistics: 200 million monthly active users, $725 million in revenue, and 19 million active servers per week. The platform most Steam users alt tab into between games.
• Twitch user and growth statistics: 240 million monthly visitors, 2 million average concurrent viewers, and 17 billion hours watched in 2025. The live streaming side of the same gaming ecosystem.