The pulse

GamePulse

The live heartbeat of PC gaming — real-time player counts, weekly peaks, biggest movers and review sentiment across Steam's most-played games.

Biggest movers this week

Rising

R.E.P.O.

16.5K playing

▲ 22

Rust

112K playing

▲ 6

ARC Raiders

15.8K playing

▲ 3

Falling

HELLDIVERS™ 2

23.8K playing

▼ 5

Marvel Rivals

51.4K playing

▼ 4

Dead by Daylight

46.5K playing

▼ 3

Most played (top 24)

#	Game	Playing now	Weekly peak	% of peak	Week	Reviews
1	Counter-Strike 2	898K	1.3M	70%	—	Very Positive
2	PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS	467K	732K	64%	—	Mixed
3	Dota 2	639K	635K	100%	—	Very Positive
5	Apex Legends™	171K	284K	60%	▲ 1	Mixed
6	Slay the Spire 2	68.4K	196K	35%	▼ 1	Mixed
7	R.E.P.O.	16.5K	94.6K	17%	▲ 22	Overwhelmingly Positive
8	Grand Theft Auto V Legacy	74.5K	98.5K	76%	▼ 1	Very Positive
10	Geometry Dash	41.0K	68.4K	60%	▼ 1	Very Positive
11	War Thunder	61.3K	88.3K	69%	▼ 1	Mostly Positive
12	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	37.6K	81.3K	46%	▼ 1	Very Positive
13	ARC Raiders	15.8K	111K	14%	▲ 3	Very Positive
14	Delta Force	98.5K	170K	58%	—	Mixed
15	Overwatch®	43.8K	60.4K	73%	▼ 2	Mostly Negative
16	Marvel Rivals	51.4K	79.9K	64%	▼ 4	Mostly Positive
17	Rust	112K	164K	68%	▲ 6	Very Positive
18	Dead by Daylight	46.5K	62.1K	75%	▼ 3	Mostly Positive
19	Deadlock	—	72.5K	0%	▼ 1	—
20	Warframe	58.3K	72.7K	80%	▼ 3	Very Positive
21	EA SPORTS FC™ 26	66.2K	67.1K	99%	▲ 1	Mixed
22	Stardew Valley	73.6K	81.4K	90%	▼ 1	Overwhelmingly Positive
23	Battlefield™ 6	29.0K	46.6K	62%	▲ 3	Mixed
24	HELLDIVERS™ 2	23.8K	40.3K	59%	▼ 5	Mostly Positive
25	Limbus Company	30.5K	50.1K	61%	▼ 1	Very Positive
26	Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced	66.1K	64.8K	100%	▼ 1	Very Positive

Live data from public Steam APIs. Per-game historical trend charts fill in as SynchPulse banks more hourly snapshots.