Palworld Passes Counter-Strike 2 for Most Concurrent Steam Players

As has been the norm for the Pokemon with guns gamesince its early access launch on January 19, 2024, it hit another milestone after another 24 hours. Palworld now sold another million copies and its Steam concurrent players count passed Counter-Strike 2. 

The latest sales milestone is six million. The five million copies sold reveal came at about 4:15am ET on January 22, 2024 and this latest one happened at 1:05am ET on January 23, 2024, so it took almost 24 hours for the next hallmark to be hit. 

Here’s the announcement tweet, which also confirmed Pocketpair is working on patches:

As for the latest Palworld Steam concurrent players count, it once again provided SteamDB stats. At the time the screenshot was taken, the all-time peak was 1,853,216. At time of writing that’s gone up a bit, as the current peak is 1,864,421. 

At 9:20am ET on January 23, 2024, it is at the top of the current concurrent players list, with Counter-Strike 2 in second, Dota 2 in third, PUBG in forth, and Apex Legends rounding out the top five. Of those five, it is the only paid game.

Palworld is immediately available for the PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X in early access.