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What are concurrent players?

Concurrent players is the number of people playing a game at the same moment. A peak is the highest such figure over a set period.

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How it works

Steam publishes how many people are in each game right now, and sites such as Steam Charts record it over time. Our player counts are the peak over the last 30 days, with the date we read it. A concurrent figure is not the number of owners or monthly players, which are always much higher.

Steam figures leave out console players and other launchers, so we say when a count covers Steam only. Games that aren't on Steam have no count.

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About the author

Aashish Khakhar · Editor

Aashish edits GamesChart and checks every drop rate, price and player count against the publisher's own source before it goes live.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia – Concurrent user, published by en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikidata – Concurrent players (Q1124352), published by wikidata.org

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