What is the most-played game on Steam right now?

Dota 2 is the most-played game on Steam right now, with 673,167 players in-game and a 24-hour peak of 1,046,553. The full top 100 by live concurrent players is listed above, read from Steam's official charts.

How is 'most-played' measured?

By current concurrent players — the number of people actively in-game right now, from Steam's official ISteamChartsService charts endpoint. It is not owners or sales: a game can have huge ownership but few concurrent players, and vice-versa.

How often does this update?

Steam publishes concurrent-player counts continuously. This page reads the live chart and caches it for a few minutes, so it reflects Steam's official numbers within minutes.

Live · Steam charts

Most-played Steam games right now

The top 100 Steam games by live concurrent players— current in-game count and 24-hour peak, straight from Steam’s official charts. Updated Oct 26, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC.

Dota 2

673,167

players in-game right now — #1 most-played on Steam (24-hour peak 1,046,553).

4,886,105

players across the top 100

100

games ranked live

Top 15 right now

Concurrent players, live

Dota 2673,167

Counter-Strike 2535,385

Deadlock203,940

AION 2174,534

Call of Duty®160,164

FiveM150,669

Bongo Cat133,594

Cyberpunk 2077124,977

WARDOGS115,286

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS105,020

Team Fortress 274,820

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege70,203

Rust69,770

ARC Raiders67,954

Valheim65,554

Players in-game right now — top 15 by live concurrent count.

The full chart

Every game, ranked by live players

Most-played Steam games — live concurrent players (top 100)

#	Game	Players now	24h peak	Reviews
1	Dota 2

Query Steam's live charts yourself

This page reads Steam’s official concurrent-player chart through Crawlora’s GET /steam/charts/concurrent endpoint — one REST call, credential-free public Steam data normalized to clean JSON. Also available: /steam/charts/most-played (weekly) and /steam/players (any single game). Explore the whole catalog in the Steam Games dataset or the Steam API endpoints.