CS2 is sitting pretty at the top of Steam's charts with a juicy 1.28M peak today while the rest of the leaderboard fights for scraps. Dota 2 and PUBG are still flexing solid numbers in the 600k-900k range depending on the snapshot, but the real chaos is coming from surprise hits like the fishing sim How to Fish hitting 222k and Palworld holding steady around 177k-198k peaks.

Bongo Cat keeps proving you don't need actual gameplay to pull 160k concurrent — just cats slapping taskbars and memes. How to Fish launched as this unhinged co-op thing where you fish then blast catches with rifles, and it blew past expectations with patches adding 8-player lobbies and anti-grief tools after launch day madness. The Steam official charts are showing these numbers straight from the API as of late August 2026.

Meanwhile the usual suspects like Rust and FiveM round out the mid-tier while new drops and evergreen free-to-plays keep the platform cooking. Steam's top 100 is pulling over 7 million concurrent across the board right now, proving the player pie is huge even if CS2 takes the biggest slice.