Which game did Palworld become the first since to exceed 2 million concurrent Steam players?

Palworld became the first game since PUBG: Battlegrounds to exceed two million concurrent Steam players. The milestone came on January 24, 2024, during Palworld’s explosive Early Access launch.

Concurrent players measure how many people are playing at the same time, rather than how many copies a game has sold or how many total people have ever played it. Palworld’s Steam peak later reached 2,101,867 players on January 27, 2024, placing it among the platform’s biggest releases ever.

PUBG: Battlegrounds had set the earlier benchmark during its own rise on Steam. Its peak exceeded two million concurrent players before its official release, helping establish the battle royale as a major PC phenomenon. Palworld’s achievement was especially striking because it combined survival crafting and monster taming rather than following PUBG’s battle-royale format. The other listed games were not the immediately preceding two-million-player milestone referenced by the question.