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.

19.2K playing

▲ 22

Rust

114K playing

▲ 6

ARC Raiders

16.1K playing

▲ 3

Falling

HELLDIVERS™ 2

25.0K playing

▼ 5

Marvel Rivals

52.1K playing

▼ 4

Dead by Daylight

48.6K playing

▼ 3

Most played (top 24)

#	Game	Playing now	Weekly peak	% of peak	Week	Reviews
1	Counter-Strike 2	922K	1.3M	72%	—	Very Positive
2	PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS	492K	732K	67%	—	Mixed
3	Dota 2	652K	635K	100%	—	Very Positive
5	Apex Legends™	182K	284K	64%	▲ 1	Mixed
6	Slay the Spire 2	71.0K	196K	36%	▼ 1	Mixed
7	R.E.P.O.	19.2K	94.6K	20%	▲ 22	Overwhelmingly Positive
8	Grand Theft Auto V Legacy	75.8K	98.5K	77%	▼ 1	Very Positive
10	Geometry Dash	41.4K	68.4K	61%	▼ 1	Very Positive
11	War Thunder	63.5K	88.3K	72%	▼ 1	Mostly Positive
12	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	40.0K	81.3K	49%	▼ 1	Very Positive
13	ARC Raiders	16.1K	111K	15%	▲ 3	Very Positive
14	Delta Force	102K	170K	60%	—	Mixed
15	Overwatch®	45.5K	60.4K	75%	▼ 2	Mostly Negative
16	Marvel Rivals	52.1K	79.9K	65%	▼ 4	Mostly Positive
17	Rust	114K	164K	69%	▲ 6	Very Positive
18	Dead by Daylight	48.6K	62.1K	78%	▼ 3	Mostly Positive
19	Deadlock	—	72.5K	0%	▼ 1	—
20	Warframe	61.2K	72.7K	84%	▼ 3	Very Positive
21	EA SPORTS FC™ 26	69.6K	67.1K	100%	▲ 1	Mixed
22	Stardew Valley	78.8K	81.4K	97%	▼ 1	Overwhelmingly Positive
23	Battlefield™ 6	31.3K	46.6K	67%	▲ 3	Mixed
24	HELLDIVERS™ 2	25.0K	40.3K	62%	▼ 5	Mostly Positive
25	Limbus Company	31.0K	50.1K	62%	▼ 1	Very Positive
26	Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced	70.1K	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.