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

Counter-Strike 2 is the most-played game on Steam right now, with 744,797 players in-game and a 24-hour peak of 1,266,345. 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 Jul 13, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC.

Counter-Strike 2

744,797

players in-game right now — #1 most-played on Steam (24-hour peak 1,266,345).

5,340,861

players across the top 100

100

games ranked live

Top 15 right now

Concurrent players, live

Counter-Strike 2744,797

Palworld488,058

Dota 2453,677

TBH: Task Bar Hero257,247

FiveM166,403

Bongo Cat140,816

Marvel Rivals126,219

EA SPORTS FC™ 26121,747

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS109,752

Rust108,726

Dead by Daylight80,438

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth74,262

Warframe63,563

Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced61,695

Grand Theft Auto V Legacy61,642

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

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.