![Steam releases 2020 Year in Review, reveals player numbers](https://cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/600x400/steam-white-bg.jpg)
The service broke new records with a whopping 120 million monthly active users and 62.6 million active users every day on average.
Steam recorded a peak to 24.8 million concurrent players, which happened during the bug-ridden Cyberpunk 2077 launch.
The situation the world has been for the past year has no doubt tremendously increased the usage of this online platform as well. A total game time recorded was 31.3 billion hours which is a massive 50.7% increase to the previous year with around 20 billion hours.
![Steam stats in 2020](https://cdn.afterdawn.fi/storage/pictures/steam-stats-2020-1.png)
Not only was the year a success for Steam, according to the company it was good for the developers and publishers too. The number of games that grossed more than $100k increased by 36%. Seasonal sales also broke records.
As you can imagine, the data transferred coincides with the game time and increased over 50% to 25.2 exabytes. That's 25 200 000 000 000 000 000 bytes.
![Data transferred by Steam in 2020](https://cdn.afterdawn.fi/storage/pictures/steam-stats-2020-2.png)
The post on Steam's website goes into way more detail about SteamVR stats, controllers, etc so you might want to check it out here.
Written by: Matti Robinson @ 18 Jan 2021 14:31