As the world’s largest online gaming platform, Steam attracts millions of users daily, offering them multiplayer gaming, social networking, and video streaming services. However, some game titles are way above others when it comes to the number of players and total hours played.
According to data presented by Sports Lens, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the most popular game on Steam, with more than a million daily players, 30% more than the second Dota 2.
More than 467 million Hours Played in 30 Days
As the fourth game in the top-rated Counter-Strike series, CS:GO released in 2012, and despite being on the market for over a decade, it’s as popular as ever. At the beginning of 2014, there were more than 2.2 million CS:GO players around the world. Since then, this figure has grown to 36.2 million.
Data from Statista and Steamcharts shows that the multiplayer shooter racked up an impressive 1 million daily players on January 6, far more than competing titles Dota 2, Lost Ark and Apex Legends. Statistics show that the game had a peak 1.01 million players in the last 30 days, while all CS:GO fans spent more than 467 million hours playing on Steam in this time period.
With nearly 700,000 daily players, Dota 2 ranked as the second most popular game on Steam. Statistics show that Dota 2 had 772,938 peak players in the past month and a total of 341 million hours played on the gaming platform.
Goos Goos Duck ranked third with over 563,000 daily players. PUBG BATTLEGROUNDS and Apex Legends close out the top five club, with 424,000 and 352,000 daily players, respectively. Together, the five games have logged over 1.1 billion hours played on Steam in the last thirty days.
The third highest paid game in Esports
In addition to leading the number of active players, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ranks high on the list of the highest-paid games in the esports industry.
According to EsportsEarnings data, CS:GO ranked as the third highest-paying esports game of all time, with $145.3 million in prize pools, won in more than 6,500 tournaments. Statistics show that CS:GO players won more prize money than League of Legends and Arena of Valor players, but they still trail Dota 2 and Fortnite as the two highest-paying games.
Dota 2 players have grossed $310.9 million in tournaments so far, and Fortnite players follow with over $147 million in prize pools.
