Counter-Strike 2 breaks its Steam all-time high player peak record, once again

Valve's Counter-Strike 2 is undoubtedly growing in popularity as the first-person shooter (FPS) has once again shattered the all-time high player peak record, according to the charts.

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The latest figures sourced from SteamDB indicate Counter-Strike 2 has smashed through its previous record of 1.72 million players with a new figure of 1,824,989. Notably, this isn't the highest all-time peak player count for Steam since records started, as that title is still held by PUBG: Battlegrounds, and its 3,257,248 players.

PUBG is followed by Black Myth: Wukong with 2.4 million and then Palworld at 2.1 million. Counter-Strike 2 is currently sitting in fourth place with 1.82 million, and at the time of writing this, it currently has 1.6 million concurrent players, which is a little more than double PUBG's concurrent player count at 760,000.

What is surprising here is that Counter-Strike 2 is growing in popularity, and seemingly quite rapidly, as it appears the game is reaching new heights in terms of players each month, as indicated by the above chart, which shows the steady growth of the title over the last three years. So, what is causing this spike? It's likely the esports scene holding the top spot on Twitch right now is contributing to the massive rise in players, with many of the streamers co-streaming the ESL Pro League, Counter-Strike 2's competitive esports tournament.

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