Proverbs

Player counts over time, as we observed them.

• Counts people running the game through Steam only. Players on other stores, consoles or launchers are not included.
• We poll the busiest games every 15 minutes and quiet ones as rarely as once a month, so a short spike between polls can be missed. Each game shows how often it is polled.
• Our player history starts on 19 October 2026. Earlier peaks, including launch peaks, are not in our data.

Source: Steam Web API, ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers. Full methodology

The average and peak number of people in the game on Steam in each calendar month before our own collection began. These figures come from a licensed historical archive, not from our own polls.

• Counts people running the game through Steam only. Players on other stores, consoles or launchers are not included.
• Estimates, accurate to within about 0.3%.
• Peaks come from roughly hourly readings, so they can be lower than ours, which come from polls up to every 15 minutes.
• Available for our most played games only, back to July 2012 at the earliest. Other games show no history before October 2026.

Source: Licensed historical archive, Monthly player history. Full methodology