MapleStory cost to play
MapleStory player count on Steam, what the paid packages cost in the UK, and the cube odds case that led to Korea's largest fine under its e-commerce consumer law.
MapleStory gameplay, images and trailer
© Nexon, MapleStory trailer “Global MapleStory Classic World Grand Launch Trailer” on Steam · Steam store page
The short version
- Free to play: Free to download and play
- Loot boxes: Random paid items; rates shown in the game only
- 27k Steam peak: Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts)
- USK 12 (pegi.info lists only the 2007 PC release): Age rating
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MapleStory player count
Concurrent players on Steam, from Steam Charts, read 28 Oct 2026.
- Players now
- 27,411
- Steam, 30 Oct 2026
- Peak, last 30 days
- 27,411
- Peak, Sept 2026
- 10,847
- 7,107 on average
- Change vs Aug 2026
- −20%
- monthly peak
- All-time peak
- 27,411
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Is MapleStory dead?
No. MapleStory peaked at 10,847 players at once on Steam in September 2026, with 7,107 playing at any moment on average. That is steady with the three months before. These are Steam players only.
| Month | Average | Peak | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 7,107 | 10,847 | −20.3% |
| August 2026 | 8,987 | 13,602 | −11.4% |
| July 2026 | 10,708 | 15,355 | −12.4% |
| June 2026 | 10,482 | 17,535 | +46.9% |
| May 2026 | 8,122 | 11,934 | +1.7% |
| April 2026 | 7,566 | 11,738 | −7.6% |
| March 2026 | 8,280 | 12,705 | +1.4% |
| February 2026 | 8,521 | 12,524 | −4.1% |
| January 2026 | 9,915 | 13,056 | −5.5% |
| December 2025 | 9,987 | 13,809 | −11.3% |
| November 2025 | 9,103 | 15,569 | +56.5% |
| October 2025 | 6,937 | 9,950 | – |
What MapleStory costs to play
| Item | Price | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| MapleStory Classic World – Zakum Package (Steam UK, pre-order, releases 6 Oct 2026) | £59.49 | package | store.steampowered.com Checked 3 Oct 2026 |
How MapleStory is rated
GamesChart Score
70.2, #2,989 of 3,236 rated games
#75 of 2003 · #694 of the 2000s · #512 in Platform · #2,308 on PC
Critics
Players
Built from 18,210 ratings across 3 of 5 sources (no Wikidata or RAWG rating). Critics and players count 50/50. Ratings pulled 5 November 2026.
Where it sits in the ranking
- #2,988
Divide2017 · Exploding Tuba Studios70.2 - #2,989
MapleStory2003 · Wizet70.2 - #2,990
Mario Sports Superstars2017 · Camelot Software Planning70.2
MapleStory guides and tools
MapleStory questions
How many people are playing MapleStory Classic World?
Nexon doesn't publish a separate figure. On Steam, Classic World is part of the MapleStory app, so Steam Charts counts both together. That figure peaked at 27,411 concurrent players in the 30 days to 30 October 2026, MapleStory's highest on Steam Charts, after Classic World's Founder's Access (6 October) and Grand Launch (21 October). Players on the Nexon Launcher aren't counted.
When did MapleStory Classic World come out?
Founder's Access started on 6 October 2026 and the Global Grand Launch was on 21 October 2026, Nexon says.
Is MapleStory free to play?
Yes. MapleStory is free to download and play. It makes its money from optional paid loot boxes; the prices are listed on this page.
What age rating is MapleStory?
MapleStory is rated USK 12 (pegi.info lists only the 2007 PC release).
How many people play MapleStory?
Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts): 27,411, checked 30 October 2026. Its all-time Steam peak is 27,411.
What is MapleStory's all-time Steam peak?
27,411 concurrent players on Steam, the highest Steam Charts has recorded for MapleStory (read 28 October 2026). The peak in the last 30 days was 27,411. Players on other stores and consoles aren't counted.
Is MapleStory dead?
No. MapleStory peaked at 10,847 players at once on Steam in September 2026, with 7,107 playing at any moment on average. That is steady with the three months before. These are Steam players only.
Do these MapleStory player numbers include consoles?
No. The player counts on this page are Steam only (Steam Charts, read 28 October 2026). People playing on Mac, through Game Pass or on other PC stores aren't counted, and publishers rarely publish those figures.
Who makes MapleStory?
MapleStory is developed by NEXON Korea Corporation and published by Nexon.
MapleStory is a free-to-play side-scrolling online role-playing game from Nexon, first released in Korea in 2003 and on Steam in 2012. In January 2024 Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined Nexon 11.6 billion won (about $8.9 million) for changing the odds of its paid "cubes" without telling players, the largest fine ever under Korea's e-commerce consumer protection law. The full story is in our history of the MapleStory cube case.
Odds
Cubes are items that re-roll the extra stats on a piece of equipment. Nexon's Korean service now publishes cube probabilities, and in January 2024 it stopped selling cubes there altogether, moving stat re-rolls to the in-game currency. We haven't found an official page with probabilities for the global version of MapleStory that most UK players use, so there are no MapleStory rows in the drop-rate index yet. If Nexon publishes them, we will add them.
How it plays
MapleStory is a free-to-play online role-playing game (MMORPG) played in 2D from the side, which Nexon calls the original side-scrolling MMORPG. You build your own hero from more than 40 classes, each with its own abilities, and choose from thousands of cosmetic options to make them look the way you want.
Nexon describes action-packed play in which you take full control of your character's abilities to conquer dungeons and defeat bosses, while following the storylines of Maple World. Nexon describes hundreds of locations to roam, from forests, deserts and frozen tundra to underwater kingdoms, lost civilisations and a city in the sky.
You can play alone or with friends, and the game is built for long-term play, with what the publisher puts at hundreds of hours of content, secrets to discover and bosses to master.
What it costs
The game is free to play. Steam UK lists one paid package, the MapleStory Classic World Zakum Package, at £59.49, on sale until 14 October 2026 for release on 6 October. Other purchases are made in-game with Nexon's own currency, and we haven't found a public UK price list for it.
Players
The 30-day peak on Steam Charts was 27,411 concurrent players on 30 October 2026, MapleStory's highest on record there (the previous monthly peak was 17,535, in June 2026). The 30-day average was about 12,902, up 82% on September. Players on Nexon's own launcher aren't counted.
MapleStory Classic World
MapleStory Classic World is Nexon's separate world built around the early game: a Beginner character, the four original paths (Warrior, Magician, Bowman and Thief), party quests, and its own Citizenship and Crafting systems. Founder's Access began on 6 October 2026, and the Global Grand Launch followed on 21 October.
How many people play it? Nexon hasn't published a figure. On Steam, Nexon says, MapleStory and Classic World are "packaged together as a single, unified build", so Steam Charts counts them as one game. The jump to a 27,411 peak in the month Classic World opened is the closest public signal, but it can't be split between the two. The Nexon Launcher offers Classic World as a standalone client, and those players aren't counted at all.
Age ratings
The ratings in Valve's store data for the current Steam release are USK 12 in Germany and 14 in Brazil (DEJUS). PEGI has a single MapleStory entry: the original PC release of May 2007, which it rated 7 for violence. It has no entry for the game as it is today, nearly twenty years and many content updates later. We keep the page on the current USK 12 rating, but you should know the only PEGI rating on record is lower than our usual 12+ line.
How we checked
The package price and ratings come from the Steam UK store and Valve's store data, read on 3 October 2026. The 2007 PEGI entry is from pegi.info, read on 4 October 2026. Details of the fine come from Korean business press coverage of the Fair Trade Commission's decision. The player figures are from Steam Charts on the same day. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.
Card art and page images: screenshots from the MapleStory Steam store page. Source: NEXON, MapleStory. © NEXON. GamesChart is unofficial and is not endorsed by or affiliated with NEXON.
Updated 30 October 2026: the player figures were re-read on Steam Charts that day, and the Classic World dates and Steam packaging come from Nexon's news posts of 29 September and 21 October 2026.
Official links: nexon.com · Steam
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Guides and data
Sources
- MapleStory on Steam (Nexon), published by store.steampowered.com
- Steam store data for app 216150 (Valve) – regional age ratings, published by store.steampowered.com
- pegi.info – MapleStory (PC, 2007), published by pegi.info
- Steam UK – MapleStory Classic World: Zakum Package, published by store.steampowered.com
- KED Global – Nexon fined record 11.6 billion won over MapleStory cube odds (3 Jan 2024), published by kedglobal.com
- Steam Charts – MapleStory, published by steamcharts.com
- Nexon – Founder's Access pre-download instructions, Nexon Launcher and Steam (29 Sep 2026), published by nexon.com
- Nexon – The Grand Launch of Global MapleStory Classic World! (21 Oct 2026), published by nexon.com
- Card art and page images – MapleStory Steam store screenshots (NEXON), used under the Nexon Game IP Guide for Content Creators, published by playersupport.nexon.com
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