Looks like Steam's Christmas blunder hasn't had any effect on the client's usage. This weekend, Steam reached over 12 million concurrent users—exactly 12,330,445 at the time of writing.

The eight-figure number was hit just before noon (EST) on Sunday and continued to rise from there. The top two games being played are, unsurprisingly, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Fallout 4, Grand Theft Auto V, and Football Manager 2016 follow after a gap in the hundreds of thousands.


Steam's Winter Sale—which ends January 4—probably plays a part in the record-breaking user count. Adding intrigue to the sale, Valve is running a mysterious alternate-reality game on Steam with lots of internet detectives are on the case.

The Winter Sale, however, didn't come without problems. Steam was hit with a denial-of-service attack on Christmas day, a move that led to serious caching issues that revealed private user information to others. The company has since apologized, and it appears that Steam users have granted their forgiveness.

At this time last year, Steam peaked at 8.5 million concurrent users. Back in June, the client reached the 10 million mark.