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Valve leaks Steam game player counts; Valve plugged the hole, but important data has already escaped
Octagon7711
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A recently discovered hole in Valve's API allowed observers to generate
extremely precise and publicly accessible data for the total number of
players for thousands of Steam games. While Valve has now closed this
inadvertent data leak, Ars can still provide the data it revealed as a
historical record of the aggregate popularity of a large portion of the
Steam library.
Complete article.
The following table represents a small selection of the top games with
Achievements on Steam, as ranked by number of total unique players. Please see the description on the previous page for important caveats about usage of this data, and download this CSV file for player data from over 13,000 Steam games.
It's a really long list of course so checkout the full article for a longer list or this CSV file.
| Title | Player Estimate | Steam App ID |
|---|---|---|
| Team Fortress 2 | 50,191,347 | 440 |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 46,305,966 | 730 |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 36,604,134 | 578080 |
| Unturned | 27,381,399 | 304930 |
| Left 4 Dead 2 | 23,143,723 | 550 |
| PAYDAY 2 | 18,643,807 | 218620 |
| Garry's Mod | 18,576,379 | 4000 |
| Warframe | 16,332,217 | 230410 |
| Counter-Strike: Source | 15,001,876 | 240 |
| Paladins | 14,371,946 | 444090 |
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 13,235,488 | 72850 |
| Terraria | 13,132,545 | 105600 |
| Portal 2 | 13,062,700 | 620 |
| Sid Meier's Civilization V | 12,701,498 | 8930 |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 12,604,123 | 271590 |
| Borderlands 2 | 11,218,936 | 49520 |
| Robocraft | 10,145,493 | 301520 |
| Rocket League | 10,110,342 | 252950 |
| Portal | 9,971,481 | 400 |
| War Thunder | 9,536,732 | 236390 |
| Rust | 9,147,240 | 252490 |
| ARK: Survival Evolved | 9,103,947 | 346110 |
| Half-Life 2 | 8,877,286 | 220 |
| Brawlhalla | 8,646,824 | 291550 |
| Chivalry: Medieval Warfare | 8,260,157 | 219640 |
| Trove | 7,700,319 | 304050 |
| Path of Exile | 7,634,137 | 238960 |
| Killing Floor | 7,395,545 | 1250 |
| The Binding of Isaac | 7,172,818 | 113200 |
| No More Room in Hell | 7,144,320 | 224260 |
| Alien Swarm | 6,667,813 | 630 |
| Warface | 6,656,284 | 291480 |
| Fallout 4 | 6,601,188 | 377160 |
| Arma 3 | 6,404,450 | 107410 |
| Cities: Skylines | 6,132,366 | 255710 |
| Insurgency | 6,007,744 | 222880 |
| Euro Truck Simulator 2 | 5,982,548 | 227300 |
| APB Reloaded | 5,874,946 | 113400 |
| Age of Empires II HD | 5,824,316 | 221380 |
| Dirty Bomb | 5,760,753 | 333930 |
| Dead by Daylight | 5,757,369 | 381210 |
| SMITE | 5,751,466 | 386360 |
| Castle Crashers | 5,555,066 | 204360 |
| The Forest | 5,552,274 | 242760 |
| Tomb Raider | 5,495,033 | 203160 |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5,479,626 | 292030 |
| Wallpaper Engine | 5,279,723 | 431960 |
| Saints Row IV | 5,275,914 | 206420 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | 5,267,226 | 10180 |
| Spiral Knights | 5,226,655 | 99900 |
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