PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds can't stop, won't stop growing. About a month ago, we reported the game had broken the record for highest concurrent players among non-Valve games on Steam (no small feat), capping off at around 481,000 concurrent players. This weekend, however, the game has broken another, larger record.
In the past 24 hours, more people have played PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds than any other game on Steam. This include's Valve's on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2. You can find the complete player breakdown (as of this writing and according to Steam itself) below.
This is a fairly large milestone for the game, and bodes well for Battlegrounds' continued popularity. Of course, the game still has a few more ceilings to break. Dota 2 still holds the record for most concurrent players of all time, at close to 1.3 million on March of last year. Battlegrounds is now in second with 859,250 players, beating out Global Offensive's 850,485 all-time high. You can see the ten most-played games on Steam (according to third-party aggregator Steamcharts) below.
Our Take
Maybe once Battlegrounds is the only game people play, when all other human pastimes have been phased out in favor of endless battle royales and the one-world government mandates all citizens play at least two hours of the game per day... maybe that's when I'll finally get around the playing it.