#16 on SteamSteady crowd

Team Fortress 2

Released Oct 10, 2007 · Steam app 440

Free to play

Right now

Steam players since we started tracking · updated 22:25 UTC

Playing now

52,408

at 22:25 UTC

24-hour peak

84,107

All-time peak

253,225

monthly peak, Jul 2023

24h change

-7.3%

average vs the day before

Twitch viewers

156

live on Twitch

Best price

€0.00

official store

Players over time

Log scale

Latest: 52,408 players
Peak · 48h: 92,241 players
Average · 48h: 75,843 players
Lowest · 48h: 0 players

Oct 27, 2026, 10:25 PM: 52,408 players

What stands out

-42%Players since 23:00 UTC, our first reading in the last 24 hours.
#16Most played on Steam right now, by live players.
0Twitch viewers for every 100 players on Steam.

All-time peak

253,225

Highest monthly peak on record, in Jul 2023. The most we have counted ourselves since Oct 26, 2026 is 92,241.

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 26, 2026	76,080	+36%+20,180	92,241
September	55,900	+11%+5,614	77,668
August	50,286	+5.2%+2,466	63,267
July	47,820	+6.6%+2,978	67,731
June	44,842	-2.9%-1,354	60,821
May	46,196	-8.9%-4,487	59,777
April	50,683	+2.3%+1,161	69,163
March	49,522	-0.1%-56	66,670
February	49,578	+1.5%+736	65,782
January	48,842	-6.8%-3,566	68,845
2025
December	52,408	+15%+6,990	92,856
November	45,418	+2.2%+991	77,876

Show all 172 months

Month	Average players	Change from the month before	Peak players
2025
October	44,427	-6.8%-3,246	82,862
September	47,673	+3.4%+1,567	67,138
August	46,106	+2.5%+1,129	62,083
July	44,977	+0.5%+236	70,613
June	44,741	+7.4%+3,066	60,738
May	41,675	+2.4%+961	59,650
April	40,714	-7.1%-3,102	55,704
March	43,816	+3.8%+1,611	58,434
February	42,205	-12%-5,771	58,638
January	47,976	-30%-20,707	80,723
2024
December	68,683	+33%+16,889	146,595
November	51,794	-1.7%-870	68,400
October	52,664	+0.2%+104	78,491
September	52,560	-17%-11,088	67,263
August	63,648	-35%-33,935	97,050
July	97,583	+25%+19,484	159,941
June	78,099	+8.2%+5,920	148,457
May	72,179	+11%+7,258	99,995
April	64,921	+8.2%+4,928	83,577
March	59,993	-14%-10,150	77,754
February	70,143	-25%-23,994	98,588
January	94,137	-18%-20,879	179,882
2023
December	115,016	+70%+47,213	215,509
November	67,803	-12%-9,030	98,605
October	76,833	+0.6%+425	180,283
September	76,408	-17%-15,305	110,520
August	91,713	-23%-27,194	113,761
Julybest month	118,907	+77%+51,707	253,225
June	67,200	-16%-12,756	120,989
May	79,956	-7.9%-6,873	100,266
April	86,829	-5.3%-4,864	106,135
March	91,693	0%-24	116,604
February	91,717	-2.6%-2,444	119,399
January	94,161	-5.1%-5,105	135,479
2022
December	99,266	+11%+9,922	147,868
November	89,344	-3%-2,715	116,266
October	92,059	-4.1%-3,950	127,647
September	96,009	-2%-1,965	133,570
August	97,974	-11%-11,668	120,426
July	109,642	+22%+19,525	139,034
June	90,117	+32%+21,621	138,435
May	68,496	-9.2%-6,916	91,626
April	75,412	+3.6%+2,601	94,815
March	72,811	+3.5%+2,458	92,526
February	70,353	-12%-9,395	93,238
January	79,748	-11%-9,577	129,305
2021
December	89,325	-7.9%-7,668	129,147
November	96,993	+13%+10,890	121,812
October	86,103	+5.2%+4,249	107,528
September	81,854	+9.1%+6,838	100,830
August	75,016	-12%-10,141	92,436
July	85,157	-20%-21,066	134,736
June	106,223	+19%+16,691	150,037
May	89,532	+1.5%+1,345	123,327
April	88,187	-0.6%-517	118,950
March	88,704	-12%-12,527	113,107
February	101,231	+22%+18,083	133,620
January	83,148	+0.9%+724	111,102
2020
December	82,424	+17%+12,119	146,887
November	70,305	-4.5%-3,289	101,610
October	73,594	+6.9%+4,728	130,548
September	68,866	+2.9%+1,922	86,576
August	66,944	-3.4%-2,358	96,577
July	69,302	+6.3%+4,132	89,648
June	65,170	-1.8%-1,224	79,946
May	66,394	-1.2%-793	85,744
April	67,187	-1.2%-792	88,124
March	67,979	+13%+7,870	85,149
February	60,109	+0.9%+511	78,393
January	59,598	-3.4%-2,098	76,738
2019
December	61,696	+23%+11,380	103,481
November	50,316	-3.2%-1,678	69,869
October	51,994	+7.6%+3,661	73,467
September	48,333	+6.1%+2,788	64,640
August	45,545	-8.1%-3,994	64,518
July	49,539	+15%+6,536	93,245
June	43,003	+10%+3,926	57,130
May	39,077	-8.1%-3,428	54,127
April	42,505	-7.5%-3,435	60,330
March	45,940	-3.7%-1,768	63,379
February	47,708	-5.6%-2,803	65,290
January	50,511	-0.2%-81	66,649
2018
December	50,592	-4.7%-2,492	116,141
November	53,084	+8.9%+4,318	93,560
October	48,766	+19%+7,764	97,329
September	41,002	-6%-2,630	58,152
August	43,632	-5.5%-2,517	57,772
July	46,149	+4.4%+1,942	59,658
June	44,207	+14%+5,360	57,752
May	38,847	-0.9%-333	56,049
April	39,180	+6.5%+2,398	58,292
March	36,782	-2.5%-933	57,366
February	37,715	-29%-15,717	69,198
January	53,432	+3.1%+1,616	72,845
2017
December	51,816	-0.9%-454	71,122
November	52,270	-4.9%-2,693	84,022
October	54,963	+7.8%+3,978	97,248
September	50,985	-3.8%-2,007	73,411
August	52,992	+2.2%+1,131	69,172
July	51,861	-1%-547	66,951
June	52,408	+4.6%+2,282	69,895
May	50,126	-3.1%-1,608	73,188
April	51,734	+4.6%+2,251	72,616
March	49,483	-4.5%-2,304	74,656
February	51,787	-1.2%-649	77,381
January	52,436	+4.6%+2,295	77,405
2016
December	50,141	+6.9%+3,237	71,438
November	46,904	+2.2%+994	77,056
October	45,910	-5.4%-2,631	81,153
September	48,541	-9.7%-5,201	74,797
August	53,742	-1.3%-717	72,111
July	54,459	+6%+3,096	72,643
June	51,363	+3.1%+1,559	72,453
May	49,804	-3.2%-1,631	77,972
April	51,435	-2.5%-1,319	81,206
March	52,754	-0.2%-111	83,425
February	52,865	+0.2%+101	83,544
January	52,764	-0.4%-209	80,583
2015
December	52,973	+1.6%+828	82,824
November	52,145	-5.6%-3,112	91,588
October	55,257	-0.9%-520	91,684
September	55,777	-7.8%-4,708	90,718
August	60,485	-0.5%-294	85,201
July	60,779	+7.9%+4,434	83,241
June	56,345	+1.4%+758	78,971
May	55,587	+1.9%+1,054	84,603
April	54,533	+0.8%+415	84,438
March	54,118	-4.2%-2,352	89,571
February	56,470	-3.6%-2,080	90,599
January	58,550	+0.3%+158	94,272
2014
December	58,392	+2.9%+1,659	97,449
November	56,733	-2.2%-1,244	104,323
October	57,977	+5.2%+2,885	101,741
September	55,092	-7%-4,137	93,749
August	59,229	+4.5%+2,525	83,414
July	56,704	+6.3%+3,361	76,060
June	53,343	+11%+5,443	90,242
May	47,900	-3.6%-1,771	80,053
April	49,671	+1.1%+525	80,730
March	49,146	-1.4%-671	82,998
February	49,817	-1.7%-845	83,502
January	50,662	+5.8%+2,760	83,323
2013
December	47,902	+7.6%+3,366	86,393
November	44,536	+4%+1,728	79,961
October	42,808	-2.1%-906	74,370
September	43,714	-13%-6,611	77,493
August	50,325	+3.3%+1,624	74,504
July	48,701	-4%-2,039	72,803
June	50,740	+14%+6,107	77,349
May	44,633	+6.4%+2,690	75,126
April	41,943	-3.2%-1,393	71,706
March	43,336	+0.3%+125	72,799
February	43,211	-2.4%-1,044	72,893
January	44,255	+1.5%+631	74,300
2012
December	43,624	+2.7%+1,125	73,695
November	42,499	-9.5%-4,480	80,988
October	46,979	-7.3%-3,720	106,853
September	50,699	-18%-10,862	90,232
August	61,561	+35%+15,994	117,917
July	45,567	—	62,321

Players since 2012

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: 118,907 players on average; July 2023
All-time peak: 253,225 players at once; July 2023
Last 12 months: +2.3%; 48,827 players on average, against 47,752 the year before

September 2026: 55,900 players on average, peak 77,668 · Point at a bar for its numbers.