Steam, the preferred digital sport distributor for PC gamers, has as soon as once more damaged its personal concurrent consumer document, breaching 40 million gamers for the primary time.
Over the weekend — which simply so occurred to coincide with Monster Hunter Wilds‘ launch on Friday, February 28 — Steam logged 40,270,997 simultaneous gamers, breaking its earlier document of 39.9 million gamers set in February 2025.
In truth, based on SteamDB, Steam’s concurrent document, seen by some as a approach of measuring the success of Valve’s digital platform, has been damaged virtually each single month since Might 2024, with the concurrent peak rising from 35.5 million customers to 40.2 million in a bit greater than six months.
And whereas that quantity consists of idle gamers — that’s, gamers with Steam open however not essentially utilizing it — the variety of customers actively in a sport has hit a brand new document, too, leaping from 12.5 million to 12.8 million.
Monster Hunter Wilds Weapons Tier Listing
Monster Hunter Wilds Weapons Tier Listing
Steam noticed a surge in participant peaks throughout most of 2024, breaking its document twice in March after which once more in July. This new peak is probably going because of the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds, which noticed a 24-hour concurrent use peak of 1.38 million gamers, though 1.7 million additionally folks logged onto Counter-Strike 2, too, with PUBG, Dota 2, and Marve Rivals additionally clocking up spectacular 24-hour consumer peaks of 819,541, 657,780, and 268,283, respectively.
Nonetheless, Monster Hunter Wilds has a ‘combined’ consumer evaluation score on Steam, which has led to Capcom publishing official steering for PC efficiency points. In the meantime, Capcom has introduced early particulars for Monster Hunter Wilds Title Replace 1, which is ready so as to add an endgame social hub for gamers.
To assist get your Monster Hunter Wilds journey began, check out what Monster Hunter Wilds doesn’t inform you, and a information to all 14 weapon varieties within the sport. We’ve additionally obtained an in depth Monster Hunter Wilds walkthrough in progress, a Monster Hunter Wilds multiplayer information to clarify learn how to play with pals, and should you’ve performed one of many open betas, right here’s learn how to switch your Monster Hunter Wilds Beta character over.
IGN’s Monster Hunter Wilds evaluation returned an 8/10. We mentioned: “Monster Hunter Wilds continues to clean off the rougher corners of the collection in good methods, making for some extraordinarily enjoyable fights but additionally missing any actual problem.”
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