Bethesda’s Fallout 4 is the 2nd most played game on Steam a week after its release with 256,000+ players. This comes after the game broke existing records when it launched last week with 360,000 players – the game went live at midnight on November 11th. Previously RockStar Game’s Grand Theft Auto V held the record for concurrent players with 301,000+ when it was released on PC this past April.
Fallout 4’s numbers are nowhere near the reigning champion, Valve’s DOTA 2, which had 318,000 concurrent players as of press time and a peak today of nearly a million players today! Comparing Fallout 4’s numbers to DOTA 2’s isn’t exactly fair since one game is a single player immersive RPG and the other is a 5 Vs. 5 MOBA.
Rounding out the top ten include PC staples like Valve’s own Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2. Surprisingly Activision’s latest entry in the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops III is the last place on the top ten. I would have thought Black Ops III would have been a bit higher but I guess you can’t deny the power of the wastelands.
| CURRENT PLAYERS | PEAK TODAY | GAME | ||
| 318,155 | 806,386 | Dota 2 | ||
| 256,633 | 292,202 | Fallout 4 | ||
| 250,258 | 586,014 | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | ||
| 40,526 | 54,472 | Team Fortress 2 | ||
| 37,893 | 58,566 | Football Manager 2016 | ||
| 30,565 | 39,535 | ARK: Survival Evolved | ||
| 27,964 | 33,635 | Sid Meier’s Civilization V | ||
| 22,566 | 26,840 | Garry’s Mod | ||
| 21,037 | 26,366 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | ||
| 19,739 | 35,395 | Call of Duty: Black Ops III | ||
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