The Witcher 3 breaks Steam record with 137,724 concurrent players

• That tops the previous Steam peak of 120,000 players and the 103,000 the game reportedly reached in January 2020.
• Alinea Analytics also reports 2.4 million daily active users and 130,000 additional sales across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox after the remastered upgrade.

What happened

According to SteamDB, The Witcher 3 set a new personal best on Steam with 137,724 concurrent players on Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. BST. The previous peak was reportedly 120,000 players, putting the new record nearly 20,000 higher. The provided source places that jump in the context of the remastered upgrade released last week.

The Steam figures only cover Steam and do not include console players. That matters because the supplied information also points to activity on PlayStation and Xbox. The increase is said to follow returning players and new buyers, but the concrete Steam measurement remains limited to the PC platform via SteamDB.

Alinea Analytics, cited via Rhys Elliott, also says The Witcher 3 had 2.4 million daily active users across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox after the release of the remastered edition. According to the same source, the game sold another 130,000 copies across those platforms on September 30, 2026. In the supplied text, that sales bump is tied to the same period when the remastered upgrade went live.

The article’s source note also says the game is drawing renewed attention on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. The YouTube reference in the source material is titled “10 BIGGEST Changes in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered,” and its description says player counts keep rising after last week’s release of the remastered edition upgrade. That description supports the timing of the surge, but not the exact Steam record figures.

Background

The supplied tweet from @superhys cites reference points that The Witcher 3 drew 92,000 concurrent players at launch in 2015 and 103,000 in January 2020, when the Netflix series was generating major attention. Those figures are used in the tweet to put the recent Steam peak of 137,724 players into perspective. The tweet also says CD Projekt Red is once again benefiting from the fantasy game’s appeal.

The same tweet mentions a new Witcher 3 expansion called Songs of the Past, which it says should arrive next year. That name is not separately confirmed in the provided information, so it remains unverified for now. The open question in the source material is whether this is an officially announced expansion or a provisional or incorrect name.

The source note also says the remastered upgrade was released last week. In the supplied information, that term is used as a release label, but it is not further explained as an official update, mod, or other version designation. As a result, the exact nature of the remastered edition remains limited to what the source explicitly states.

Taken together, the SteamDB figures, the Alinea Analytics mention, and the tweet show that the resurgence is visible not only on Steam but, according to the supplied source, also across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. At the same time, the exact origin of the 2.4 million daily active users and the 130,000 sales depends on the not fully included Alinea publication. The source does name Rhys Elliott as the person citing those figures.

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Sources

• SteamDB, via the source citation included in the article.
• Alinea Analytics, cited via Rhys Elliott in the supplied source.
• Tweet from @superhys with reference figures for 2015 and January 2020.