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Bar widths, rankings and integer labels share a smoothly animated value between adjacent numeric monthly observations. Values are rounded only for display. Missing observations are not filled or treated as zero. The intermediate animated counts are not separately measured daily player totals. Metric: worldwide monthly peak concurrent players sampled by SteamCharts, on Steam only. 159 candidates researched; 134 comparable game app IDs; top 15 shown. This selected cohort is not all Steam games. Counts are neither sales nor monthly unique users. Games’ peaks may occur at different times.
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