VRChat & Rec Room See Some Steam User Growth; Sansar, Not So Much

Nice to start the New Year with some good-ish news for social VR: We're seeing somewhat significant growth in usage among the leaders on Steam. Through most of 2019, peak daily concurrency for VRChat hovered between the 7000s and 8000s; in recent months, however, that's ticked up to the 9000s and 10,000s. 

Note that I said "leaders", because as you can see here, peak daily Steam concurrency for High Fidelity, Altspace VR,  Big Screen, and Sansar generously remain in the low three figures. (Or less generously, mostly in the one to two figures.)

However VRChat isn't the only one to see some growth on Steam:

Last year Rec Room mostly attracted daily Steam concurrency in the 300s, but in recent months, it's consistently been hitting peaks in the 600s. (See pic at right.) Last January the cross-platform VR-facing social game had less than 500,000 downloads on Steam and now counts between 500,000-1 million downloads, so at least some of this growth in usage is probably from new users.

This could also reflect usage growth of VR headsets or just the extra free time over the holidays, or both! We'll see if this trend changes at all in the next few months.

Source: Steamdb.info

Comments

[Pulsar]

There is Neos VR too with a slow but positive growing trend. On November they reached and now slightly overtook Sansar on Steam.

[Petrov Olinzi]

Sansar sucks because all they want to do is events, and they dont spend any time as staff on them
now they have some scheme where special people from user base get favour for creating events for sansar but they are mostly campfire kinda affairs where people sit around and talk about boring stuff
linden Lab staff so lazy to even make stuff so they have to get users to do it so they can blame the inevitable failure on the users instead
i swear linden labs staff are incompetent and dont even deserve users at this point
there grand plan is to get corporations in there anyway but cant until they get more users so in the meantime pretend to care about creators of events and make special groups
most content uploaded to sansar isnt even made by users anyway so unless some aaa develepor starts making stuff there its dead in the water