Thanks to the recent announcement of Counter-Strike 2, CS:GO has set a new all-time high concurrent player count of 1.5 million, making it the second-biggest game ever on Steam.
Despite being one of the oldest shooters, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is presently the most popular game on Steam – over the weekend, the game achieved a new record for concurrent users, with more than 1,519,457 players logged in at the same time, according to SteamDB.
With over 1.5 million concurrent players, CS:GO has now achieved the second-highest concurrent players record on Steam. Although it is still far behind PUBG: Battlegrounds, which holds the top spot with 3.2 million concurrent players, this is still a remarkable achievement for a ten-year-old shooter.
The previous record for CS:GO was 1,308,963 concurrent players, which was achieved during the initial pandemic lockdown. However, the game has now broken its own record, thanks to a new surge in concurrent players.
Apparently, this increase in players is due to rumors circulating about a potential development of Counter-Strike 2, which has sparked renewed interest in the game, followed by an official announcement from Valve that the updated version of the shooter built on the Source 2 engine is coming this summer.
CS2 has been announced with a range of new features and improvements, such as overhauled and visually-enhanced maps, upgraded smoke grenades, sub-tick update architecture, new high-resolution VFX, and more. The game is currently being offered as a Limited Test exclusively to selected CS:GO players.
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