#21 on SteamSteady crowd

Dead by Daylight

Released Jun 14, 2016 · Steam app 381210

Prices from €5.30

Right now

Steam players since we started tracking · updated 22:50 UTC

Playing now

47,880

at 22:50 UTC

24-hour peak

60,824

All-time peak

168,845

monthly peak, Jun 2026

24h change

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needs 48 h of data

Twitch viewers

22,898

live on Twitch

Best price

€5.30

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Players over time

Log scale

Latest: 47,880 players
Peak · 48h: 60,824 players
Average · 48h: 51,839 players
Lowest · 48h: 0 players

Oct 27, 2026, 10:50 PM: 47,880 players

What stands out

+9%Players since 10:00 UTC, our first reading in the last 24 hours.
#21Most played on Steam right now, by live players.
48Twitch viewers for every 100 players on Steam.

All-time peak

168,845

Highest monthly peak on record, in Jun 2026. The most we have counted ourselves since Oct 27, 2026 is 60,824.

Month by month

Average: how many were playing at the same time at an average moment of the month. Peak: the most at once. Steam players since mid-2012, or since the game came out.

Month	Average players	Change from the month before	Peak players
2026
Octoberfrom Oct 27, 2026	52,037	+9.3%+4,427	60,824
September	47,610	-18%-10,190	75,951
August	57,800	-18%-13,013	99,887
July	70,813	-0.4%-264	121,937
Junebest month	71,077	+39%+20,026	168,845
May	51,051	+4%+1,947	86,738
April	49,104	+6.2%+2,881	77,398
March	46,223	-16%-9,073	84,502
February	55,296	+12%+6,008	93,286
January	49,288	+28%+10,660	96,633
2025
December	38,628	-18%-8,452	57,962
November	47,080	-8.5%-4,381	82,802

Show all 125 months

Month	Average players	Change from the month before	Peak players
2025
October	51,461	+8.6%+4,072	90,008
September	47,389	-20%-12,133	78,689
August	59,522	-6.3%-4,015	104,570
July	63,537	+12%+7,047	96,818
June	56,490	+34%+14,303	120,430
May	42,187	+1.8%+738	82,506
April	41,449	+31%+9,723	71,375
March	31,726	-11%-3,911	50,802
February	35,637	+17%+5,115	66,219
January	30,522	-2.7%-853	44,111
2024
December	31,375	-19%-7,193	46,522
November	38,568	-2.8%-1,129	68,157
October	39,697	+3.8%+1,442	70,208
September	38,255	-6.4%-2,625	59,668
August	40,880	+0.6%+235	62,754
July	40,645	-9.3%-4,161	99,859
June	44,806	+25%+8,981	83,741
May	35,825	+8.4%+2,779	62,610
April	33,046	-22%-9,237	56,673
March	42,283	+31%+10,098	71,444
February	32,185	+14%+3,841	48,792
January	28,344	-9.3%-2,915	42,401
2023
December	31,259	-4.2%-1,379	50,431
November	32,638	+5%+1,540	57,906
October	31,098	+3%+917	60,779
September	30,181	-16%-5,904	49,617
August	36,085	-12%-5,068	56,455
July	41,153	+2.6%+1,040	66,799
June	40,113	+30%+9,269	87,747
May	30,844	+2.6%+782	47,348
April	30,062	-8.7%-2,865	46,191
March	32,927	+2.3%+744	55,808
February	32,183	-4.3%-1,432	48,520
January	33,615	+2.9%+930	51,637
2022
December	32,685	-2.7%-907	46,470
November	33,592	-12%-4,480	55,272
October	38,072	+0.4%+147	67,565
September	37,925	+6.4%+2,276	66,113
August	35,649	-3.5%-1,310	70,127
July	36,959	-25%-12,183	68,130
June	49,142	+53%+17,094	96,390
May	32,048	+7%+2,100	50,818
April	29,948	-13%-4,447	47,960
March	34,395	-5%-1,812	53,766
February	36,207	-9.8%-3,922	52,508
January	40,129	-10%-4,510	62,074
2021
December	44,639	-0.7%-320	73,945
November	44,959	-10%-5,202	76,930
October	50,161	-2.4%-1,230	100,416
September	51,391	+0.5%+263	82,776
August	51,128	-18%-11,360	75,217
July	62,488	+28%+13,719	96,393
June	48,769	+20%+8,167	105,052
May	40,602	+7.2%+2,735	86,430
April	37,867	+11%+3,701	55,071
March	34,166	-3.3%-1,182	56,338
February	35,348	-2.7%-994	52,322
January	36,342	+2%+710	53,583
2020
December	35,632	-1.8%-651	54,526
November	36,283	+8.4%+2,810	75,075
October	33,473	-16%-6,425	77,347
September	39,898	-0.6%-250	76,258
August	40,148	-1%-389	58,910
July	40,537	+0.1%+57	66,429
June	40,480	+20%+6,747	77,341
May	33,733	+4.1%+1,340	57,799
April	32,393	+6.7%+2,046	58,477
March	30,347	+30%+6,926	51,146
February	23,421	-0.7%-161	38,942
January	23,582	+2.1%+479	44,620
2019
December	23,103	-1.5%-360	38,177
November	23,463	+15%+3,079	52,818
October	20,384	-13%-3,075	46,399
September	23,459	+22%+4,206	49,308
August	19,253	+0.8%+150	29,281
July	19,103	-11%-2,403	28,581
June	21,506	+4.6%+941	40,782
May	20,565	+21%+3,605	75,044
April	16,960	+3.5%+579	34,038
March	16,381	-15%-2,796	26,669
February	19,177	-13%-2,902	37,289
January	22,079	+12%+2,356	41,441
2018
December	19,723	+6.5%+1,199	38,560
November	18,524	-18%-3,972	40,901
October	22,496	+2.8%+606	51,065
September	21,890	+12%+2,364	62,756
August	19,526	-12%-2,623	36,374
July	22,149	+14%+2,643	46,865
June	19,506	+41%+5,712	36,423
May	13,794	+9.6%+1,203	36,414
April	12,591	-5%-665	22,439
March	13,256	-21%-3,457	23,707
February	16,713	+14%+2,087	33,397
January	14,626	+7.5%+1,020	33,164
2017
December	13,606	-5.2%-751	26,850
November	14,357	-3.5%-526	31,039
October	14,883	+2.7%+392	36,343
September	14,491	+17%+2,129	38,698
August	12,362	+20%+2,070	27,166
July	10,292	+3.4%+335	23,814
June	9,957	+12%+1,036	22,352
May	8,921	+6%+505	20,067
April	8,416	-12%-1,138	17,124
March	9,554	-16%-1,784	20,082
February	11,338	-25%-3,789	23,442
January	15,127	-11%-1,913	31,992
2016
December	17,040	+14%+2,069	42,895
November	14,971	+21%+2,647	29,783
October	12,324	-4.2%-538	29,147
September	12,862	-19%-2,971	24,120
August	15,833	+19%+2,494	42,268
July	13,339	+19%+2,091	23,743
June	11,248	—	18,011

Players since 2016

Each bar is one month: how many people were playing at the same time, on average. The line above is the month’s peak, the most at once.

Busiest month: 71,077 players on average; June 2026
All-time peak: 168,845 players at once; June 2026
Last 12 months: +22.6%; 52,953 players on average, against 43,175 the year before

September 2026: 47,610 players on average, peak 75,951 · Point at a bar for its numbers.