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CS2 Player Count

How many people are playing Counter-Strike 2 right now, hour by hour over the last week, and every month back to 2012. CS2 replaced CS:GO on the same Steam app in September 2023, so the history before that is CS:GO. Players drive skin demand: compare with the CS2 market cap.

Playing nowhourly

576,963

Last reading Nov 12, 2026, 09:00 UTC

24h range 413,649 – 1,214,732

Monthly averageOctober 2026

797,324

-15.9% vs October 2025 (948,244)

All-time monthly peakMarch 2025

1,818,368

Busiest month on average: May 2023, 1,117,517 players.

Players online, hour by hour

One reading of Steam's concurrent player count every hour, in UTC.

350k582k814k1.05M1.28M
Nov 11, 09:00 UTC 611,555Nov 12, 09:00 UTC 576,963

Monthly players since July 2012

Average and peak concurrent players for each month. Switch to Peak for the busiest moment of each month.

0235k559k883k1.21M
Jul 2012 933Oct 2026 797,324

Month by month

MonthAvg. playersChangePeak players
Nov 2026 · so far749,496–1,300,237
Oct 2026797,324-1.0%1,402,441
Sep 2026805,638-2.4%1,450,705
Aug 2026825,258-3.3%1,331,274
Jul 2026853,232-6.9%1,420,896
Jun 2026916,655-1.7%1,573,727
May 2026932,721-4.3%1,489,217
Apr 2026974,786-8.8%1,564,830
Mar 20261,069,173-1.4%1,717,624
Feb 20261,084,095+1.3%1,627,561
Jan 20261,070,444+8.0%1,654,355
Dec 2025991,177+1.0%1,620,137
Show all 173 months
MonthAvg. playersChangePeak players
Nov 2025981,482+3.5%1,597,285
Oct 2025948,244+2.4%1,588,091
Sep 2025925,940-0.3%1,571,060
Aug 2025928,429+0.9%1,502,245
Jul 2025920,070-8.9%1,427,300
Jun 20251,010,124-2.7%1,725,815
May 20251,038,597-0.7%1,712,216
Apr 20251,045,702+0.6%1,811,827
Mar 20251,039,663+3.6%1,818,368
Feb 20251,003,571+9.8%1,783,434
Jan 2025914,092+0.0%1,594,016
Dec 2024913,953+7.3%1,740,261
Nov 2024852,164+2.7%1,556,938
Oct 2024829,439-0.8%1,484,045
Sep 2024836,307-6.8%1,473,144
Aug 2024897,338+2.5%1,425,958
Jul 2024875,365-7.6%1,342,171
Jun 2024947,521-1.1%1,510,840
May 2024958,207+3.0%1,614,925
Apr 2024930,749+5.1%1,618,685
Mar 2024885,630+12.6%1,521,796
Feb 2024786,631+3.4%1,347,519
Jan 2024760,859-1.2%1,277,907
Dec 2023770,095+7.8%1,248,217
Nov 2023714,511-9.8%1,161,043
Oct 2023792,125-18.9%1,364,902
Sep 2023976,138+5.9%1,556,326
Aug 2023922,153+4.6%1,369,511
Jul 2023881,691-18.8%1,222,913
Jun 20231,085,967-2.8%1,665,869
May 20231,117,517+21.7%1,802,853
Apr 2023918,086+8.8%1,510,231
Mar 2023843,475+4.8%1,519,457
Feb 2023805,106+10.9%1,354,248
Jan 2023726,150+15.4%1,199,684
Dec 2022629,325+1.3%1,065,079
Nov 2022621,006+2.1%1,129,095
Oct 2022608,350-1.7%1,078,860
Sep 2022618,776-3.5%1,100,366
Aug 2022641,445+7.9%1,039,889
Jul 2022594,453+3.9%928,329
Jun 2022572,222+1.3%906,670
May 2022564,962-0.7%923,996
Apr 2022568,983-2.2%1,013,237
Mar 2022581,490-8.4%987,993
Feb 2022634,638+5.4%995,163
Jan 2022602,376+10.2%991,625
Dec 2021546,614-0.3%950,586
Nov 2021548,162+7.0%935,593
Oct 2021512,436+0.0%864,966
Sep 2021512,351+0.1%942,519
Aug 2021512,082+1.2%802,544
Jul 2021506,067-7.9%763,523
Jun 2021549,347-16.8%929,940
May 2021659,889-8.8%1,087,197
Apr 2021723,347-2.4%1,148,077
Mar 2021740,928-0.0%1,198,581
Feb 2021741,013-0.3%1,123,485
Jan 2021743,210+3.5%1,124,553
Dec 2020717,804+7.3%1,164,396
Nov 2020668,755+9.0%1,037,464
Oct 2020613,667+1.1%943,876
Sep 2020606,850-5.2%977,769
Aug 2020639,958+2.2%925,348
Jul 2020625,901-6.8%857,560
Jun 2020671,647-12.6%1,009,467
May 2020768,795-10.4%1,193,359
Apr 2020857,604+27.8%1,305,714
Mar 2020671,033+23.4%1,145,972
Feb 2020543,979+8.5%916,996
Jan 2020501,196+9.7%817,229
Dec 2019456,702+7.2%767,060
Nov 2019426,081+4.2%758,412
Oct 2019408,995-0.5%747,937
Sep 2019410,926-1.0%720,052
Aug 2019415,097+5.4%647,461
Jul 2019393,783+1.1%578,933
Jun 2019389,377+6.8%587,724
May 2019364,417+3.5%588,453
Apr 2019351,990-9.8%621,614
Mar 2019390,240+5.1%680,071
Feb 2019371,359-7.5%654,069
Jan 2019401,367+1.5%684,511
Dec 2018395,509+27.5%746,548
Nov 2018310,085-4.9%546,031
Oct 2018325,908-2.2%565,968
Sep 2018333,164+17.5%583,029
Aug 2018283,531+3.7%454,370
Jul 2018273,307+2.4%426,008
Jun 2018266,862+1.8%420,261
May 2018262,171-9.3%454,481
Apr 2018289,077-18.4%523,262
Mar 2018354,270-7.4%672,502
Feb 2018382,457+0.1%686,588
Jan 2018382,031+12.1%715,850
Dec 2017340,877+6.1%598,405
Nov 2017321,131-6.1%601,881
Oct 2017341,861-3.5%639,968
Sep 2017354,402-5.3%665,371
Aug 2017374,426-0.8%595,781
Jul 2017377,589+0.9%624,785
Jun 2017374,388+0.7%614,621
May 2017371,829-5.2%692,966
Apr 2017392,199+1.4%709,841
Mar 2017386,909-3.8%742,356
Feb 2017402,386+2.4%744,468
Jan 2017393,110+14.9%814,616
Dec 2016342,196+4.0%662,460
Nov 2016329,045-1.2%627,124
Oct 2016333,076+3.3%661,985
Sep 2016322,526-7.1%638,360
Aug 2016347,229-1.9%599,095
Jul 2016353,778+5.8%636,056
Jun 2016334,311-1.3%579,110
May 2016338,738-9.9%668,612
Apr 2016375,796-1.0%850,485
Mar 2016379,427+0.8%737,599
Feb 2016376,285+3.0%738,969
Jan 2016365,371-3.2%667,432
Dec 2015377,447+4.6%823,694
Nov 2015360,926-0.5%786,707
Oct 2015362,766+1.9%732,093
Sep 2015355,905-0.5%725,939
Aug 2015357,535+8.5%819,902
Jul 2015329,532-4.2%541,181
Jun 2015344,156+8.5%610,401
May 2015317,286+8.8%677,701
Apr 2015291,749+8.9%568,556
Mar 2015267,996+11.7%595,439
Feb 2015239,935+2.5%455,508
Jan 2015234,071+27.5%443,188
Dec 2014183,590+24.6%367,634
Nov 2014147,329+10.3%348,018
Oct 2014133,538+1.9%260,613
Sep 2014131,035-1.6%242,494
Aug 2014133,186+25.5%277,192
Jul 2014106,138+26.1%193,613
Jun 201484,164-0.9%164,134
May 201484,925+7.7%170,137
Apr 201478,881+12.5%142,526
Mar 201470,143+17.3%164,495
Feb 201459,791+7.5%119,764
Jan 201455,627+18.9%102,084
Dec 201346,788+56.5%96,298
Nov 201329,891+7.1%92,279
Oct 201327,902+0.8%53,263
Sep 201327,679+6.6%52,052
Aug 201325,962+26.7%50,511
Jul 201320,493+13.1%42,149
Jun 201318,120-3.2%33,700
May 201318,710+16.9%53,379
Apr 201316,006+0.3%31,966
Mar 201315,960-8.1%32,166
Feb 201317,373+7.5%35,238
Jan 201316,164+14.8%31,359
Dec 201214,079-0.4%27,553
Nov 201214,134+31.6%50,533
Oct 201210,739-32.9%20,850
Sep 201216,001+3.4%36,057
Aug 201215,475+1559.4%52,261
Jul 2012933–1,642

About these numbers

  • Concurrent players: people in the game at the same moment, the figure Steam itself publishes. It is not the number of unique players in a month, which is several times larger.
  • Live count: read from the Steam Web API once an hour. The 24-hour range is the lowest and highest of those hourly readings.
  • Monthly history: monthly averages and peaks via steamcharts.com, from its own sampling, so its peaks can run higher than our once-an-hour reading would catch. Months after our tracker started that steamcharts has not been loaded for are built from our hourly readings and marked “so far” while in progress.

Source: Steam Web API; monthly history via steamcharts.com.

Questions

How many people are playing CS2 right now?

576,963 players were in Counter-Strike 2 at our last hourly reading. Over the last 24 hours the count ranged from 413,649 to 1,214,732.

What is the CS2 all-time peak player count?

The highest monthly peak on record is 1,818,368 concurrent players, in March 2025. The busiest month on average was May 2023, at 1,117,517 players online at any given time.

Is the CS2 player count going up or down?

October 2026 averaged 797,324 concurrent players, 15.9% fewer than the 948,244 of October 2025.

Where do these numbers come from?

The live count is read from the Steam Web API (the same concurrent-player figure Steam publishes) once an hour. The monthly history back to July 2012 comes from steamcharts.com. All figures are concurrent players, people in the game at the same moment, not unique monthly players.