Steam in July 2024

The month’s most played games by average concurrent players, with the change on June 2024.

Biggest risers

Most players gained on the month before, among games with 1,000+ players then.

Launched this month

Games whose first months on Steam started here, by players at launch.

Top 50 of July 2024

#	Game	Avg. players	Peak	Change	Was
1	Counter-Strike 2	875,365	1,342,171	-7.6%	#1
2	Dota 2	475,394	801,126	-2.3%	#2
3	Banana	369,328	545,510	-7.5%	#3
4	PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS	293,397	700,235	+2.1%	#4
5	ELDEN RING	209,288	431,218	-4.5%	#5
6	Once Human	147,805	231,343	new	—
7	NARAKA: BLADEPOINT	134,464	385,770	+26%	#8
8	The First Descendant	127,154	264,860	new	—
9	Apex Legends™	116,747	265,369	-16%	#6
10	Grand Theft Auto V	115,604	185,504	+12%	#9
11	Team Fortress 2	97,583	159,941	+25%	#11
12	Rust	93,180	173,651	-4.8%	#10
13	Stardew Valley	82,852	148,985	+29%	#13
14	Call of Duty®	67,185	105,754	-11%	#12
15	Baldur's Gate 3	66,694	115,180	+14%	#15
16	Destiny 2	62,149	100,435	-49%	#7
17	Crab Game	57,134	73,889	+17%	#18
18	War Thunder	56,711	86,471	-4.1%	#14
19	Palworld	53,788	128,325	+106%	#39
20	7 Days to Die	53,782	124,449	+68%	#29
21	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	52,113	73,646	-9.9%	#16
22	Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI	51,372	84,647	-2.9%	#17
23	Warframe	43,825	97,330	+0.3%	#20
24	FINAL FANTASY XIV Online	42,181	77,305	+50%	#35
25	Dead by Daylight	40,645	99,859	-9.3%	#19
26	Hearts of Iron IV	35,310	54,272	-1.1%	#25
27	DayZ	34,043	59,506	-3%	#28
28	Euro Truck Simulator 2	32,856	67,661	+39%	#43
29	The Sims™ 4	32,815	47,028	+12%	#32
30	Terraria	31,317	45,909	+5.3%	#31
31	Red Dead Redemption 2	30,714	51,175	+19%	#40
32	Don't Starve Together	30,179	61,886	+11%	#37
33	Overwatch®	29,394	51,648	+4.3%	#34
34	Monster Hunter: World	29,325	66,465	-33%	#21
35	Path of Exile	28,010	228,398	+254%	#116
36	VRChat	27,407	44,391	-0.2%	#36
37	Left 4 Dead 2	27,362	48,914	+32%	#51
38	Dark and Darker	25,772	39,513	-30%	#23
39	Unturned	25,142	33,373	-29%	#27
40	Cyberpunk 2077	24,962	42,923	+14%	#46
41	Project Zomboid	24,543	36,435	-2.4%	#41
42	ARK: Survival Evolved	24,130	40,559	+2.1%	#44
43	HELLDIVERS™ 2	23,928	47,007	-43%	#22
44	Governor of Poker	23,748	47,100	-17%	#33
45	Farming Simulator 22	23,553	52,470	-2.2%	#42
46	Garry's Mod	23,521	35,584	+11%	#49
47	Total War: WARHAMMER III	22,062	38,253	-16%	#38
48	Fallout 4	21,889	37,963	-38%	#26
49	Valheim	21,785	44,945	-28%	#30
50	RimWorld	21,545	31,362	+1.6%	#48

Their best month ever

Games that never had more players on average than this month, after two years or more.

Average and peak concurrent players per month from SteamCharts, used with permission; a year is ranked by its average over the months we have. Covers every game with live players today and every notable game (with a Wikipedia article) even if nobody plays it any more.