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

Counter-Strike 2 is the most-played game on Steam right now, with 818,171 players in-game and a 24-hour peak of 1,274,983. 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 24, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC.

Counter-Strike 2

818,171

players in-game right now — #1 most-played on Steam (24-hour peak 1,274,983).

6,026,213

players across the top 100

100

games ranked live

Top 15 right now

Concurrent players, live

Counter-Strike 2818,171

Dota 2736,687

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS492,920

AION 2178,539

Bongo Cat153,998

Call of Duty®148,858

Apex Legends™136,507

Deadlock114,358

Cyberpunk 2077105,823

Wallpaper Engine98,273

WARDOGS95,852

Delta Force88,812

FiveM86,154

Rust85,915

Team Fortress 283,616

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	818,171

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.