CS:GO breaks its own record with 1.4 million concurrent players – update

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has broken its own player record for the highest number of concurrent players. Last weekend, more than 1.4 million players played the game simultaneously on Valve’s gaming platform.

From figures from SteamDB shows that CS:GO was recently played by 1,420,340 players simultaneously. That is a new record for the game, which was first released in 2012. Moba game DOTA2, also from Valve, was in second place last weekend with a peak number of players of 750,000.

The new record follows rumors that Valve will soon release a CS:GO version based on the Source 2 engine. References to it recently appeared in Nvidia drivers. According to sources from game journalist Richard Lewis, this upgrade will appear as a beta this month. Activity on Valve’s Counter-Strike blog has also increased over the past month, InsiderGaming also notes, which would suggest that Valve will release an update soon.

Update 3:50 PM: The article initially suggested that the player count of 1.4 million is a new record for Steam. That’s not right: PUBG previously had a record number of more than 3 million players. The article has been adjusted accordingly. Thanks to Tricolores.

Thank you to our 1.4M Twitter followers for organizing and playing CS:GO concurrently today.

— CS:GO (@CSGO) March 11, 2023