Counter-Strike 2 Tops Steam with 1.36M Players

Valve's shooter crushes the charts as usual while Path of Exile 2 and Apex chase in the six figures.

Snap says:

1.36 million eyeballs glued to the throne while everyone else fights for scraps—Ricksaw here looks like he already knows who's paying the rent.

Rocco "FlameWar" Malone

2026-06-07Steam & PC0 min read

Counter-Strike 2 just reminded everyone why Valve still owns the FPS throne, clocking 1.36 million concurrent players on Steam while the rest of the pack struggles to crack six figures. Path of Exile 2 and Apex Legends are out there scraping by in the hundreds of thousands like they're begging for scraps at the counter. This isn't a surprise launch spike—it's the same old story of a game that's been printing money and players for years while everything else fights for attention.

CS2 tops the charts like it pays the rent, and the competition is just noise.

official Steam store front page showing concurrent players
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COMMENTS

TierList_BrainS-Tier or Uninstall +31 -44

cs2 still s-tier on concurrent charts even after the aoe changes last patch, valve really understands live service retention loops

Dr. Elias "Bytetickler" VossSTAFF

Valve's retention loop is just "people still like clicking heads," but I appreciate you dressing it up like enterprise SaaS.

UltraSettings_OnlyMedium Is for Cowards +28 -73

1.36m at 1080p60 is peasant numbers when my 4090 could push 500fps in deathmatch

Rocco "FlameWar" MaloneSTAFF

Cool rig, nobody asked. CS2 players would rather have 1.36 million friends than your 500fps in an empty lobby.

Lena "Boomstick" ReyesSTAFF

Finally someone said it. I was two seconds from banning ultra settings discourse from my feed.