Games / Steam launch data / Free-to-play players
Market report · SteamSpy · read Oct 20, 2026
How many players does a free Steam game get?
Short answerUsually none at any given time. Of the 4,688 free-to-play games SteamSpy lists, 3,237 (69%) had zero players online at their peak on the day before we checked. Only 250 (5.3%) had 100 at once, and 78 had 1,000. Going free gets you claims, not players.
4,688free-to-play games on SteamSpy
69%had 0 players at peak
250had 100+ at once
78had 1,000+
Peak players on the day before, every F2P game
Download the bands (CSV) · Top 25 (CSV)
For scale, O'BLOCK peaked at 4 players at once in its first days. That would put it among the 1,451 games here (31%) with anyone online at their peak.
The top 25 by peak players
| # | Game | Peak players, day before |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 1,013,936 |
| 2 | PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS | 314,682 |
| 3 | Apex Legends | 124,262 |
| 4 | War Thunder | 50,478 |
| 5 | Team Fortress 2 | 43,819 |
| 6 | Warframe | 36,195 |
| 7 | VRChat | 34,699 |
| 8 | The Sims 4 | 25,276 |
| 9 | Destiny 2 | 24,619 |
| 10 | Lost Ark | 17,355 |
| 11 | Russian Fishing 4 | 14,950 |
| 12 | Brawlhalla | 14,169 |
| 13 | eFootball | 13,404 |
| 14 | Eternal Return | 12,341 |
| 15 | Legends of IdleOn - Idle MMO | 11,081 |
| 16 | Unturned | 10,408 |
| 17 | World of Warships | 8,518 |
| 18 | YoloMouse - Cursor Changer | 8,493 |
| 19 | Albion Online | 8,184 |
| 20 | MapleStory | 8,092 |
| 21 | STAR WARS: The Old Republic | 6,625 |
| 22 | World of Tanks Blitz | 5,707 |
| 23 | SMITE 2 | 4,975 |
| 24 | KARDS - The WWII Card Game | 4,796 |
| 25 | Supermarket Together | 4,704 |
Read this before you quote it
- SteamSpy's
ccufield is the highest number of players online at once on the day before the read. A game at zero can still have players on other days. - The list is what SteamSpy's genre API returns for "Free to Play". It is not every free game on Steam. Its owner counts are estimates; we only use the player counts here.
- Read Oct 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM ET. Method: how we collect Steam data.
Sources
- SteamSpy API, genre "Free to Play": steamspy.com/api.php, read Oct 20, 2026.
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