Populous™: The Beginning
Right now
Steam players since we started tracking · updated 17:10 UTCPrices
No prices tracked for this game yet.
Players over time
- Latest
- 26 players
- Peak · 48h
- 26 players
- Average · 48h
- 13 players
- Lowest · 48h
- 5 players
Oct 31, 2026, 5:10 PM: 26 players
Highest monthly peak on record, in Mar 2024. The most we have counted ourselves since Oct 26, 2026 is 26.
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 | 13 | +17%+2 | 26 |
| September | 11 | -8.3%-1 | 24 |
| August | 12 | -14%-2 | 26 |
| July | 14 | +7.7%+1 | 31 |
| June | 13 | -19%-3 | 31 |
| May | 16 | 0%0 | 39 |
| April | 16 | +33%+4 | 46 |
| March | 12 | 0%0 | 32 |
| February | 12 | -14%-2 | 29 |
| January | 14 | +27%+3 | 29 |
| 2025 | |||
| December | 11 | 0%0 | 29 |
| November | 11 | 0%0 | 27 |
Show all 32 months
| Month | Average players | Change from the month before | Peak players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | |||
| October | 11 | 0%0 | 23 |
| September | 11 | 0%0 | 24 |
| August | 11 | 0%0 | 32 |
| July | 11 | 0%0 | 25 |
| June | 11 | -15%-2 | 24 |
| May | 13 | +30%+3 | 30 |
| April | 10 | -17%-2 | 26 |
| March | 12 | 0%0 | 26 |
| February | 12 | 0%0 | 27 |
| January | 12 | -20%-3 | 30 |
| 2024 | |||
| December | 15 | +7.1%+1 | 35 |
| November | 14 | +17%+2 | 33 |
| October | 12 | 0%0 | 29 |
| September | 12 | -7.7%-1 | 29 |
| August | 13 | -19%-3 | 30 |
| July | 16 | +23%+3 | 37 |
| June | 13 | -24%-4 | 40 |
| May | 17 | -5.6%-1 | 48 |
| April | 18 | -64%-32 | 48 |
| Marchbest month | 50 | — | 164 |
Players since 2024
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
- 50 players on average
- March 2024
- All-time peak
- 164 players at once
- March 2024
- Last 12 months
- +6.3%
- 13 players on average, against 12 the year before
September 2026: 11 players on average, peak 24 · Point at a bar for its numbers.
- average players (bars)
- peak players (line)
Average and peak concurrent Steam players per month. The month in progress is in the table above.
On Twitch
Not among the streams we track on Twitch right now.
Videos
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About the game
- Release date
- Nov 30, 1998
- All-time peak reached
- Mar 2024 · 164
- Tracked by PixelKrypt since
- Oct 26, 2026
- Steam app id
- 2616430
