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

Dota 2 is the most-played game on Steam right now, with 669,037 players in-game and a 24-hour peak of 1,082,992. 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 25, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC.

Dota 2

669,037

players in-game right now — #1 most-played on Steam (24-hour peak 1,082,992).

5,653,759

players across the top 100

100

games ranked live

Top 15 right now

Concurrent players, live

Dota 2669,037

Counter-Strike 2611,895

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS375,182

Call of Duty®179,926

Deadlock175,329

AION 2159,264

Bongo Cat145,729

Cyberpunk 2077121,655

Apex Legends™118,704

WARDOGS116,814

FiveM97,919

Wallpaper Engine89,150

Team Fortress 278,127

Delta Force74,661

Warframe68,195

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	669,037

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.