Steam's Best of 2024 — Most Played

Steam has finished the year by looking at some of the best games from 2024, whether they’re from this year or not. The Most Played category looks at the games played in 2024 that had over 40,000 concurrent players (not counting giveaways or free weekends).

The Most Played were (in no particular order):

OVER 450,000 PEAK PLAYERS

• Dota 2
• Path of Exile 2
• PUBG: Battlegrounds
• Counter-Strike 2
• HELLDIVERS 2
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Marvel Rivals
• ELDEN RING
• Palworld
• Apex Legends

OVER 200,000 PEAK PLAYERS

• Content Warning
• THRONE AND LIBERTY
• Once Human
• NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
• The First Descendant
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
• Lethal Company
• Last Epoch
• Stardew Valley
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Path of Exile
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
• Dragon's Dogma 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Destiny 2

OVER 100,000 PEAK PLAYERS

• Enshrouded
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
• Satisfactory
• Warframe
• Manor Lords
• Delta Force (2024)
• Rust
• Hades II
• Fallout 4
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
• THE FINALS
• 7 Days to Die
• Granblue Fantasy: Relink
• MultiVersus
• EA SPORTS FC 25
• EA SPORTS FC 24
• V Rising
• Wallpaper Engine
• Team Fortress 2
• Monster Hunter: World
• War Thunder
• Liar's Bar
• Factorio
• Farming Simulator 25
• DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO

OVER 50,000 PEAK PLAYERS

• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Battlefield V
• Forza Horizon 4
• Lost Ark
• Hearts of Iron IV
• Half-Life 2
• RimWorld
• Dark and Darker
• Sons Of The Forest
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Hunt: Showdown 1896
• Farming Simulator 22
• It Takes Two
• Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
• The Crew 2
• Crosshair X
• Crusader Kings III
• Phasmophobia
• VRChat
• Euro Truck Simulator 2
• New World: Aeternum
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Chained Together
• Valheim
• Street Fighter 6
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
• Don't Starve Together
• Governor of Poker 3
• Risk of Rain 2
• Total War: WARHAMMER III
• TCG Card Shop Simulator
• No Man's Sky
• Unturned
• DayZ
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• The Sims 4
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
• Endless Legend
• Payday 2
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Supermarket Simulator
• Crab Game
• Football Manager 2024
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
• The Forest
• Limbus Company
• Fallout 76
• Dead by Daylight
• Diablo IV
• Overwatch 2
• Hades
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Terraria
• Gray Zone Warfare

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