Red Dead Redemption 2 is breaking its Steam concurrent player record five years after its release on Valve’s platform, all thanks to a huge Rockstar Games publisher sale that sees the western epic at its lowest price yet.
A number of Rockstar’s games are currently steeply discounted on Steam, but it’s the 70% off Red Dead Redemption 2 that is helping Rockstar’s most recent title achieve its highest Steam concurrent player numbers ever. According to data from SteamDB, Red Dead Redemption 2’s player numbers have been steadily climbing since the start of the sale on January 24, when the game became discounted to just $15. The game’s concurrent players peaked at 86,717 on January 26, a bump of more than 10,000 players compared to the same time in 2023 and 2024.
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It’s an impressive resurgence for what is still one of the most critically-acclaimed games of all time. Red Dead Redemption 2 currently sports a 98 on review aggregator Metacritic, and in GameSpot’s Red Dead Redemption 2 review, we called Rockstar’s return to the Wild West “a thought-provoking” prequel with a rich, detailed world we didn’t want to leave. We even awarded it as GameSpot’s GameSpot’s Game Of The Year 2018.
It was released on PC a year later, and though its launch on the platform was rough at start, subsequent updates solved many of the game’s outstanding technical issues. That led us to call it a worthy PC port and still one of the generation’s best games. According to Valve, Red Dead Redemption 2 was one of the top 100 most-played games on the Steam Deck from March 2023-2024.
Other Rockstar Games currently heavily discounted on Steam include the more recent PC release of the original Red Dead Redemption, as well as Grand Theft Auto V, The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy, and Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Taking a stroll through memory lane with Rockstar’s older titles might not be a bad way to wait for more information about Grand Theft Auto 6, which analysts say could sell more than 40 million copies in its first year. According to Take-Two, GTA 6 is still on track for a Fall 2025 release. For more about the ambitious sequel, here’s everything we currently know about GTA 6.