Sea of Thieves has just seen its highest peak concurrent player counts on Steam since launch

Sea of Thieves has just seen a hefty rise in concurrent players on Steam, rising to the highest peak player counts the action-adventure game's witnessed since its launch on Valve's platform – and IT looks like this could be down to the Steam Winter Sales event.

Head to SteamDB and you'll see the peak player count the pirate gamy posted around the time of Sea of Thieves' Steam clean release in June last year hit a whopping 66,906 (on June 18, a couple of weeks following its launch). Similarly, Steam Charts puts the peak cooccurring player count for June 2020 at 66,632. Numbers stayed high for a goodly clump of July, too, with Sea of Thieves selling a million copies on Steamer and having its biggest month always overall – at that time – as of July 20. However, peak numbers hit apiece month following this wealthy person drifted down to figures someplace between the 13.2k and 29.2k, according to Steam Charts' figures.

Now, though, some sites' records show that for December 2020 Sea of Thieves' tip concurrents shot up to over 45k, which was hit at the tail-end of Dec, and its risen further since. Plus, it looks like – as stats tracker site PlayTracker notes – information technology looks like the Steam Winter Sale is behind the tremendous mounting.

SteamDB and Steam Charts' graphs show that SoT's concurrent thespian counts started shot up on December 22, the Steam Winter Sale's start date stamp. The game has climbed steadily since, and the sites' data now indicates the highest coincident histrion to since around the clock the game shoot Valve's store last year has been gear up during this clock – someplace around 52,916 to 53,347 on January 2, as of writing.

That's a pretty impressive climb given the recent peak counts we've seen over the past five more or less months – information technology looks wish Rare's high seas romp is going from metier to strength.

Last we heard, Sea of Thieves had sold one million copies on Steam, merely that was way back in July 2020. It looks like we can expect that count to have risen a decent clump since then, apt the new summit player counts the multiplayer halt's seen this holiday – especially as SteamDB shows that SoT was in the meridian three spots of Steam's globose big top Peter Sellers list the in conclusion fortnight.

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