On June 2, the release of Street Fighter 6 took place. The game immediately set a record, beating all the fighting games online on Steam.
According to the SteamDB service, at the time of writing the news, the maximum number of simultaneous players in Street Fighter 6 is 65,873 people. The peak online of the previous record holder DRAGON BALL FighterZ is much lower — 44,303 people.
The top 5 fighting games for peak online on Steam also include:
Mortal Kombat 11 — 35,147 people;
Brawlhalla — 34,816 people;
GUILTY GEAR -DRIVE- — 31,156 people.