Counter-Strike: Global Offensive concurrent players, 2012 to 2026
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive concurrent players stood at 569,916 in 2026, down 14.2% on the previous period.
Peak concurrent players of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam, the standard public measure of a PC game's active audience. Since 2012 the series has ranged from 1642 (2012) to 1.8 million (2025); the latest reading is 569,916 for 2026, down from 664,451 the period before.
Player curves tell product stories: launches spike, updates resurrect, and the decay rate between events measures how sticky the game actually is. Concurrents undercount total players by a large factor, but they compare cleanly across games and time.
Frequently asked questions
Is this total players?
No. Concurrent players counts people in the game at the same moment. Total monthly players is many times higher, but Steam does not publish it.
Does this include other platforms?
Steam only. Games with console or standalone-launcher populations have larger audiences than this series shows.
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