GAMETECH: The Kildare man behind this year's number one video game

Brendan Greene was born in Ireland, a country of roughly 4.5 million people. Earlier this week, Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, the video game that Greene created, recorded more than 3 million people playing at once on Steam. Greene doesn’t need Ireland any more — he has a country of his own, now, writes Ronan Jennings. 

The staggering figure highlights just how popular Battlegrounds has become, but it also raises another interesting question: at the beginning of 2018, what other PC games have such persistent, dedicated players? Battlegrounds is the clear number one, but what about the best of the rest?

For that data, we looked at the top ten ‘concurrent players’ list on Steam on New Year’s Day. While Steam doesn’t host numbers for massively multiplayer games like Warcraft or Final Fantasy IV, it does represent a very large swathe of the PC gaming landscape.