CSGO sets new record with more than 1.4 million concurrent players

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO), a popular first-person shooter video game, has set another new record for all-time concurrent players on Valve’s Steam platform.

On Saturday, the game’s official Twitter account thanked its 1.4 followers for playing concurrently and setting a new all-time concurrent player record yet again. It may be mentioned that the game had previously hit a new record just a month ago with a peak of 1,320,219 concurrent players.

You can read this story for details about the previous record for concurrent players.

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

— CS:GO (@CSGO) March 11, 2023

“Thank you to our 1.4M Twitter followers for organizing and playing CS:GO concurrently today,” read the tweet.

According to the Steam analytics site, SteamDB, CSGO saw 1,420,183 concurrent players online on March 11. The game has been garnering a huge number of players with almost half a million simultaneous users all week. For comparison, the only other game to come close to the record is Dota 2 with a peak of 1,295,114 players almost 7 years ago.

The steep rise in the number of players may be a direct result of recent reports suggesting that a new CSGO version, possibly called Counter-Strike 2, could be in the works. Although there has been no official word from Valve or Steam, a recent NVIDIA leak revealed executable files called “cs2” and “csgo2,” indicating that a beta version of the game could launch as soon as later this month.