Steam has surpassed 125 million active users and is home to more than 4,500 games, Valve has announced.
The figure is a dramatic rise from the 100m users announced in September 2014, meaning the digital store has been picking up some 5m users each month.
Fresh figures from the Steam stats page also show the number hit a new peak record on Sunday, reaching 8.935,330 concurrent users.
Develop has more on this story.
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