Palworld is so popular it’s lapping other top Steam games

Since it released on Jan. 19, Palworld has done nothing but exponentially grow its audience through a mix of players enjoying the game or various viral controversies on social media. Regardless of the cause, its playerbase is now so large that it’s lapping every other game on Steam. 

As of Jan. 24 at 9am CT, Palworld hit a peak of 2,018,905 concurrent players on Steam—becoming just the second game to ever hit the two million player mark on the platform, according to SteamDB. It also leapfrogged Counter-Strike 2 to become the second most-played game ever by all-time peaks, now trailing only PUBG’s record of 3,257,248 players set in January 2018.