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People spent 31 billion hours playing Steam games in 2020, a 50% increase from 2019 – GamesRadar
“Video game playtime surged when people started staying home,” Valve says, to no one’s surprise
Steam has released a bunch of player stats for 2020, and well, video games were very, very popular last year.
In addition to a record-setting 120 million monthly active players and a record 24.8 million peak concurrent players, Steam reports that 31.3 billion hours were spent playing Steam games in 2020, a 50% increase from 2019.
I probably don’t need to explain why we were playing so many games in 2020, but Valve clarifies that it was definitely the pandemic. “As many of you already know, this…
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