The Steam player count records just keep on coming for Facepunch Studios' survival game Rust. Last month, the title - which has seen a massive surge of popularity of late thanks to an uptick in streamer interest - hit a new peak concurrent player count record of around 245k players. Now, the multiplayer game's average player count has soared to all-new highs.
Head to Rust's Steam Charts page and you'll see that - as of writing - the game's average player count over the past 30 days has hit a new record high of 146,404 - far beyond averages seen on Valve's platform since its launch way back in 2013. It's also just over 4k beyond January's record-breaking average of 142,117 - an eye-watering leap from the regular figures between the 46-61k mark seen over the course of last year.
Given it's still early February, we won't know for a good few weeks yet whether the average will stay this high across the month - and so, whether we'll see a new record average player for the whole of February. But, it's safe to say Rust's popularity isn't showing any signs of dying down any time soon.
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