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

Counter-Strike 2 is the most-played game on Steam right now, with 527,279 players in-game and a 24-hour peak of 1,244,579. 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 Sep 9, 2026, 6:28 AM UTC.

Counter-Strike 2

527,279

players in-game right now — #1 most-played on Steam (24-hour peak 1,244,579).

3,560,444

players across the top 100

100

games ranked live

Top 15 right now

Concurrent players, live

Counter-Strike 2527,279

Dota 2372,728

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS245,443

Bongo Cat121,788

TBH: Task Bar Hero86,842

Apex Legends™85,439

Delta Force71,395

FiveM71,289

Palworld68,838

Wallpaper Engine65,578

Rust51,639

Path of Exile 249,963

Marvel Rivals49,157

Slay the Spire 247,825

Deadlock43,054

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	Counter-Strike 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.