Highest Steam player counts this week — 21–27 September 2026

Counter-Strike 2 led Steam this week with a peak of 1,438,829 concurrent players. Dota 2 was second at 875,284, then PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at 742,992.

Biggest rise versus last week’s peak: Total War: WARHAMMER III (+152% vs last week).

These are hourly Steam samples for the games we track — not a forecast, and not live to the second.

#GamePeak
1Counter-Strike 21,438,829
2Dota 2875,284
3PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS742,992
4WARDOGS322,797
5Apex Legends265,692
6Valheim242,821
7FiveM195,123
8Bongo Cat188,717
9Aniimo151,876
10Delta Force131,500
11Rust128,163
12Limbus Company114,907

Also on the charts: All news · WARDOGS player count jumps to 289,453 · Valheim player count jumps to 204,669 · FC 27 hits a new Steam peak of 65,701 · Slay the Spire 2 player count jumps to 93,918