The Witcher 3 Remastered Has Already Broken Steam Concurrent Player Record

We're just a few hours into the launch of The Witcher 3 Remastered, and it's already beaten its previous record for concurrent players on Steam.

Before the remaster came out, Steam's previous player peak for the 11-year-old The Witcher 3 came in January 2020, when the Witcher TV series came out. Back then, 103,329 people were all playing The Witcher 3 at the same time on Valve's platform, according to SteamDB. Now that the remaster is here, The Witcher 3 has reached a new peak of 114,696 players, a massive 258% jump from last month, where 31,959 people were playing. Keep in mind, though, that this only takes Steam players into account, there are likely a huge amount of people playing on Xbox Series X and S, PS5, Nintendo Switch 2, and on other PC platforms such as GoG and Battle.net.

These numbers will likely go up throughout the week, too. …