In other Steam news, the service recently hit a major milestone when 14 million people logged in at the same time, setting a new concurrent user record. Weve searched high and low for the absolute best offline games for PC gamers, making sure you can still get a game in even if you cant get online. Here are the top games on Steam right now by player count, as shared on Steam's own Stats page: It reportedly had an average of 22,809 players per hour during the year, outpacing Dark Souls III (14,186), No Man's Sky (8,393), and XCOM 2 (7,815). Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
You can see the full Top 5 chart below, which includes comparisons to 2015. Rounding out the top five for the year were Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (360,600), Team Fortress 2 (50,802), Grand Theft Auto V (40,258), and Civilization V (37,885). 1, picking up a reported 636,607 average players per hour during 2016. When looking at the number of players per hour, Valve's free-to-play DOTA 2 was No.
We already know the top-grossing games on Steam in 2016, but which games were played the most? GitHyp, which tracks the service's most-played games, has published its report for 2016 ( via Kotaku), revealing that Valve games were the most popular on the platform and no game released in 2016 cracked the top five.