PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Sets A New Steam Record For Most Concurrent Users

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is not only dominating the Battle Royale genre, it’s also dominating Steam and breaking records left and right. The last-man standing shooter broke the record for concurrent players on Steam over the weekend, hitting its all-time peak of 1,342,857 players and surpassing the Dota 2 all-time concurrent player record by nearly 50,000 players.

Highest peak player count on @steam_games! A sincere thank you to all our players & the amazing @PUBATTLEGROUNDS team I get to work with! GG pic.twitter.com/z8V2rdmQmm

— PLAYERUNKNOWN (@PLAYERUNKNOWN) September 16, 2017

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is not only dominating the Battle Royale genre, it’s also dominating Steam. According to Gamasutra, the last-man standing shooter broke the record for concurrent players on Steam over the weekend, hitting its all-time peak of 1,342,857 players and surpassing the Dota 2 all-time concurrent player record by nearly 50,000 players.

PUBG launched on Steam Early Access six months ago and has since sold over 10 million copies. The game also broke the most-played game record on Steam three weeks ago, again edging out Valve’s Dota 2 record.

Gamasutra also reports that the game’s exponential growth could be due to its immense popularity with CS: GO players, which, according to SteamSpy, make up around 55 percent of PUBG owners. PUBG’s playerbase is bound to grow even more when it makes its way to Xbox One later this year.

In the meantime, you can check out the official Xbox One trailer after the jump.