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Measured, not estimated

How many people still play these games

Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. Nothing here is scraped from another site, estimated, or extrapolated to servers we do not list. We query all 11,567 listed servers every hour, directly over the protocol each one speaks — Source and GoldSrc servers over Valve's A2S, Minecraft over its server list ping, FiveM over its info endpoint — and record what each server answers. The counts below are those answers. They describe the servers listed on JoinGG, which is not every server in the world: read them as a large sample of public community servers, not as a census of a game.

Last sweep . This page rebuilds every five minutes.

139,775
Players connected

reported by the servers themselves

9,295
Servers answering

2,272 listed but silent

11,567
Servers listed

every one queried directly

32
Games covered

of 147 you can list

These figures rest on 1,703,940 status checks recorded over the last 7 days, of which 89 hours cover enough of the list to compare with the others. Readings are kept for 7 days, so this page gets deeper as they accumulate rather than longer.

Players across every listed server

1,703,940 status checks · 169 hours measured

Mon 23:00 UTC — only 9,541 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 00:00 UTC — only 8,584 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 01:00 UTC — 136,189 players on 11,432 serversTue 02:00 UTC — 127,587 players on 11,398 serversTue 03:00 UTC — 107,282 players on 10,824 serversTue 04:00 UTC — only 8,318 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 05:00 UTC — only 9,815 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 06:00 UTC — only 7,001 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 07:00 UTC — 112,417 players on 11,379 serversTue 08:00 UTC — only 8,597 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 09:00 UTC — 94,684 players on 10,893 serversTue 10:00 UTC — 97,256 players on 11,522 serversTue 11:00 UTC — 107,018 players on 11,236 serversTue 12:00 UTC — only 8,970 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 13:00 UTC — 118,093 players on 10,538 serversTue 14:00 UTC — 144,301 players on 11,565 serversTue 15:00 UTC — 160,011 players on 11,562 serversTue 16:00 UTC — only 9,174 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 17:00 UTC — 164,686 players on 11,422 serversTue 18:00 UTC — 131,363 players on 10,967 serversTue 19:00 UTC — only 9,724 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 20:00 UTC — only 5,408 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 21:00 UTC — 146,350 players on 10,433 serversTue 22:00 UTC — 110,454 players on 10,858 serversTue 23:00 UTC — 147,698 players on 11,334 serversWed 00:00 UTC — 132,439 players on 10,467 serversWed 01:00 UTC — only 9,511 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 02:00 UTC — 90,008 players on 11,165 serversWed 03:00 UTC — 102,022 players on 10,786 serversWed 04:00 UTC — only 10,097 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 05:00 UTC — only 9,488 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 06:00 UTC — 89,065 players on 11,566 serversWed 07:00 UTC — 67,723 players on 11,121 serversWed 08:00 UTC — only 10,255 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 09:00 UTC — only 9,814 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 10:00 UTC — 104,390 players on 11,325 serversWed 11:00 UTC — 83,927 players on 11,061 serversWed 12:00 UTC — only 10,131 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 13:00 UTC — only 7,282 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 14:00 UTC — only 8,633 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 15:00 UTC — 106,615 players on 10,475 serversWed 16:00 UTC — only 10,118 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 17:00 UTC — 161,407 players on 10,772 serversWed 18:00 UTC — 107,052 players on 10,461 serversWed 19:00 UTC — 174,531 players on 11,231 serversWed 20:00 UTC — only 10,317 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 21:00 UTC — 135,632 players on 10,438 serversWed 22:00 UTC — 99,066 players on 10,458 serversWed 23:00 UTC — 142,966 players on 11,467 serversThu 00:00 UTC — only 9,877 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 01:00 UTC — only 10,233 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 02:00 UTC — only 6,009 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 03:00 UTC — 106,814 players on 10,425 serversThu 04:00 UTC — only 9,544 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 05:00 UTC — 86,379 players on 11,252 serversThu 06:00 UTC — 68,059 players on 10,874 serversThu 07:00 UTC — only 10,190 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 08:00 UTC — 87,196 players on 10,811 serversThu 09:00 UTC — 90,395 players on 10,824 serversThu 10:00 UTC — 91,161 players on 10,826 serversThu 11:00 UTC — only 10,292 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 12:00 UTC — only 8,254 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 13:00 UTC — only 8,291 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 14:00 UTC — only 9,088 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 15:00 UTC — 112,307 players on 10,908 serversThu 16:00 UTC — 155,173 players on 11,061 serversThu 17:00 UTC — 144,332 players on 10,523 serversThu 18:00 UTC — 169,696 players on 10,705 serversThu 19:00 UTC — 138,908 players on 10,609 serversThu 20:00 UTC — 127,793 players on 10,505 serversThu 21:00 UTC — only 10,408 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 22:00 UTC — 157,981 players on 11,009 serversThu 23:00 UTC — only 8,912 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 00:00 UTC — only 7,354 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 01:00 UTC — only 9,439 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 02:00 UTC — 112,466 players on 10,882 serversFri 03:00 UTC — 93,373 players on 11,129 serversFri 04:00 UTC — only 10,266 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 05:00 UTC — only 10,370 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 06:00 UTC — 85,830 players on 11,013 serversFri 07:00 UTC — 64,731 players on 10,569 serversFri 08:00 UTC — 80,150 players on 10,700 serversFri 09:00 UTC — only 10,253 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 10:00 UTC — 97,087 players on 10,757 serversFri 11:00 UTC — 86,892 players on 10,672 serversFri 12:00 UTC — 114,076 players on 10,650 serversFri 13:00 UTC — only 7,853 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 14:00 UTC — only 7,846 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 15:00 UTC — 109,676 players on 10,604 serversFri 16:00 UTC — only 10,097 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 17:00 UTC — only 10,183 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 18:00 UTC — 166,404 players on 10,783 serversFri 19:00 UTC — 126,942 players on 10,826 serversFri 20:00 UTC — 152,244 players on 10,619 serversFri 21:00 UTC — 161,480 players on 10,649 serversFri 22:00 UTC — 127,899 players on 10,883 serversFri 23:00 UTC — only 10,038 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 00:00 UTC — 132,041 players on 11,213 serversSat 01:00 UTC — only 10,235 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 02:00 UTC — 109,136 players on 10,850 serversSat 03:00 UTC — only 10,274 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 04:00 UTC — only 6,908 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 05:00 UTC — only 8,871 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 06:00 UTC — only 10,354 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 07:00 UTC — only 10,397 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 08:00 UTC — 98,581 players on 10,614 serversSat 09:00 UTC — 109,874 players on 10,475 serversSat 10:00 UTC — 113,881 players on 11,045 serversSat 11:00 UTC — 98,181 players on 10,923 serversSat 12:00 UTC — only 10,003 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 13:00 UTC — 142,970 players on 10,872 serversSat 14:00 UTC — 162,504 players on 11,232 serversSat 15:00 UTC — only 5,372 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 16:00 UTC — only 9,989 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 17:00 UTC — 172,424 players on 10,625 serversSat 18:00 UTC — only 10,080 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 19:00 UTC — 190,299 players on 11,423 serversSat 20:00 UTC — only 10,085 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 21:00 UTC — 169,147 players on 11,209 serversSat 22:00 UTC — 157,587 players on 10,761 serversSat 23:00 UTC — only 9,238 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 00:00 UTC — only 8,177 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 01:00 UTC — only 7,695 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 02:00 UTC — 126,390 players on 10,932 serversSun 03:00 UTC — only 9,895 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 04:00 UTC — only 9,064 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 05:00 UTC — 109,165 players on 11,324 serversSun 06:00 UTC — 106,491 players on 11,428 serversSun 07:00 UTC — only 10,132 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 08:00 UTC — 78,633 players on 10,610 serversSun 09:00 UTC — 113,173 players on 11,567 serversSun 10:00 UTC — 115,897 players on 10,763 serversSun 11:00 UTC — only 10,107 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 12:00 UTC — only 5,766 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 13:00 UTC — only 9,744 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 14:00 UTC — only 9,924 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 15:00 UTC — 159,221 players on 10,639 serversSun 16:00 UTC — 179,933 players on 11,083 serversSun 17:00 UTC — 189,262 players on 11,371 serversSun 18:00 UTC — only 8,279 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 19:00 UTC — only 7,589 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 20:00 UTC — only 9,746 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 21:00 UTC — only 9,934 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 22:00 UTC — 144,588 players on 10,952 serversSun 23:00 UTC — 136,143 players on 10,935 serversMon 00:00 UTC — 120,955 players on 10,482 serversMon 01:00 UTC — 89,996 players on 10,911 serversMon 02:00 UTC — 110,596 players on 10,665 serversMon 03:00 UTC — 101,605 players on 10,934 serversMon 04:00 UTC — only 9,987 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 05:00 UTC — only 9,294 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 06:00 UTC — only 7,479 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 07:00 UTC — only 10,109 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 08:00 UTC — only 9,823 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 09:00 UTC — only 10,331 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 10:00 UTC — 91,973 players on 10,511 serversMon 11:00 UTC — 103,711 players on 10,806 serversMon 12:00 UTC — 115,047 players on 11,209 serversMon 13:00 UTC — 121,918 players on 11,231 serversMon 14:00 UTC — only 9,550 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 15:00 UTC — only 7,485 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 16:00 UTC — only 9,766 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 17:00 UTC — only 10,028 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 18:00 UTC — only 9,798 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 19:00 UTC — only 9,956 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 20:00 UTC — 151,938 players on 11,021 serversMon 21:00 UTC — 145,378 players on 11,196 serversMon 22:00 UTC — only 9,951 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 23:00 UTC — only 3,914 of 11,567 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparable
Mon 23:00 UTCMon 23:00 UTC
Busiest hour measured
190,299 at Sat 19:00 UTC
Quietest hour measured
64,731 at Fri 07:00 UTC
Latest sweep
145,378 players
Hours plotted
89 of 169

80 hours are marked but not plotted. The poller reached under 90% of the list in those hours, so the totals are low because fewer servers were asked — not because fewer people were playing. Drawing them on the same line would invent a drop.

By game

Servers, how many are answering, and how many people are on them right now. Every game name links to its hub, where the individual servers behind the number are listed, and every game with enough servers to stand on its own has a measurement page of its own — linked at the foot of this section.

FiveM — 67,756 players on 1,243 of 1,855 listed serversFiveM67,756Minecraft — 51,113 players on 3,291 of 4,230 listed serversMinecraft51,113Counter-Strike 1.6 — 8,519 players on 1,350 of 1,589 listed serversCounter-Strike 1.68,519Counter-Strike: Source — 3,604 players on 538 of 600 listed serversCounter-Strike: Source3,604Team Fortress 2 — 2,081 players on 523 of 568 listed serversTeam Fortress 22,081Counter-Strike 2 — 1,906 players on 759 of 865 listed serversCounter-Strike 21,906Garry's Mod — 1,728 players on 309 of 350 listed serversGarry's Mod1,728Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — 492 players on 197 of 268 listed serversCounter-Strike: Global Offensive492Day of Defeat — 415 players on 73 of 79 listed serversDay of Defeat415Left 4 Dead 2 — 397 players on 393 of 452 listed serversLeft 4 Dead 2397Day of Defeat: Source — 357 players on 46 of 58 listed serversDay of Defeat: Source357Half-Life — 347 players on 184 of 204 listed serversHalf-Life347Counter-Strike: Condition Zero — 282 players on 48 of 50 listed serversCounter-Strike: Condition Zero282Team Fortress Classic — 246 players on 38 of 45 listed serversTeam Fortress Classic246Half-Life 2: Deathmatch — 141 players on 125 of 146 listed serversHalf-Life 2: Deathmatch141Rust — 115 players on 18 of 24 listed serversRust115Natural Selection — 75 players on 12 of 16 listed serversNatural Selection75Insurgency (2014) — 68 players on 27 of 31 listed serversInsurgency (2014)68Left 4 Dead — 29 players on 51 of 56 listed serversLeft 4 Dead29Zombie Panic! Source — 23 players on 15 of 16 listed serversZombie Panic! Source23Space Engineers — 12 players on 11 of 12 listed serversSpace Engineers12Fortress Forever — 12 players on 5 of 6 listed serversFortress Forever127 Days to Die — 7 players on 19 of 24 listed servers7 Days to Die7Alien Swarm — 3 players on 6 of 6 listed serversAlien Swarm3SA-MP — 2 players on 3 of 3 listed serversSA-MP2
Servers, players and busiest hour for every game listed on JoinGG, measured by direct protocol query.
GameServersOnlinePlayers hereSlots usedIn game (Valve)Busiest hour
FiveM1,8551,24367,75612.1%—17:00 UTC~72,190
Minecraft4,2303,29151,1130%—19:00 UTC~66,984
Counter-Strike 1.61,5891,3508,51922.6%7,09618:00 UTC~11,773
Counter-Strike: Source6005383,60419.1%1,84717:00 UTC~4,698
Team Fortress 25685232,08113%91,03117:00 UTC~2,781
Counter-Strike 28657591,9067.3%529,66418:00 UTC~4,666
Garry's Mod3503091,7289.8%20,45617:00 UTC~3,446
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive2681974929.6%—18:00 UTC~883
Day of Defeat797341526.1%9600:00 UTC~439
Left 4 Dead 245239339711.1%24,39517:00 UTC~713
Day of Defeat: Source584635727.8%21519:00 UTC~400
Half-Life2041843477.6%65319:00 UTC~408
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero504828221.8%28719:00 UTC~357
Team Fortress Classic453824624.6%5902:00 UTC~272
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch1461251415.5%11118:00 UTC~158
Rust24181156%64,51103:00 UTC~174
Natural Selection16127523.7%—08:00 UTC~110
Insurgency (2014)31276818.4%10119:00 UTC~89
Left 4 Dead5651296.5%45019:00 UTC~85
Zombie Panic! Source1615236.7%803:00 UTC~38
Space Engineers1211123.1%2,71619:00 UTC~36
Fortress Forever65129.2%—03:00 UTC~17
7 Days to Die241972.2%15,05118:00 UTC~27
Alien Swarm6633.4%1318:00 UTC~11
SA-MP3320.9%—17:00 UTC~4
Insurgency (Source)6500%—19:00 UTC~15
ARK: Survival Evolved2100%9,83800:00 UTC~1
Contagion2200%919:00 UTC~1
Call of Duty 2100—1458 of 3 days
Conan Exiles1100%6,7508 of 3 days
Killing Floor 2100—4,8878 of 3 days
Red Orchestra 21100%4307:00 UTC~1

The two player-count columns measure different things

Players here is ours: people connected to the servers JoinGG lists, counted by asking each server. In game (Valve) is Steam's live count of everyone running that game anywhere — official matchmaking, single-player, community servers and idle menus included. Neither is a subset of the other that we can compute: our list is not every community server in existence, and Valve's total is not limited to multiplayer. So we print both and do not divide one by the other.

Valve's figures come from the Steam Web API and are cached for an hour, so they can lag ours by up to that much. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has no Valve column because Steam replaced CS:GO with CS2 under the same app id — there is one number for the two of them, and it is on the CS2 row. Minecraft, FiveM and the standalone mods have no Valve column because they are not separate Steam products.

Where our count is the bigger number

On Counter-Strike 1.6 (8,519 vs 7,096), Counter-Strike: Source (3,604 vs 1,847), Day of Defeat (415 vs 96), Day of Defeat: Source (357 vs 215), Team Fortress Classic (246 vs 59), Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (141 vs 111) and Zombie Panic! Source (23 vs 8) we can see more players on the servers we list than Valve reports for the entire game. That is not a mistake in either figure. Server queries count bots as players, because the protocol reports them as players — a bot-filled rotation looks busy to us. And a large part of the surviving Counter-Strike 1.6 and Day of Defeat population plays on non-Steam builds, so those players are on the servers we query and invisible to Steam. Both effects push the same way, and on twenty-five-year-old GoldSrc games they push hard enough to cross over.

One game at a time

Every game we list enough servers on to publish a population for, busiest first. The number is the players we can see on that game's listed servers right now.

FiveM67,756Minecraft51,146Counter-Strike 1.68,519Counter-Strike: Source3,604Team Fortress 22,081Counter-Strike 21,906Garry's Mod1,728Counter-Strike: Global Offensive492Day of Defeat415Left 4 Dead 2397Day of Defeat: Source357Half-Life347Counter-Strike: Condition Zero282Team Fortress Classic246Half-Life 2: Deathmatch141Rust115Natural Selection75Insurgency (2014)68Left 4 Dead29Zombie Panic! Source23Space Engineers12Fortress Forever127 Days to Die7Alien Swarm3Insurgency (Source)0

What they are actually playing

The counts above are people on servers, and servers run modes. These are the game and mode combinations with at least 5 servers behind them, taken from what the servers report they are running.

FiveM Roleplay822Minecraft SMP582Minecraft Survival355Counter-Strike 1.6 Zombie182Minecraft Vanilla143FiveM Serious RP139Counter-Strike 2 Retake134Garry's Mod Roleplay124Minecraft Skyblock95Minecraft Anarchy85Counter-Strike 2 Deathmatch79Team Fortress 2 Capture the Flag79Minecraft Towny73Garry's Mod Sandbox65Team Fortress 2 Payload64FiveM Racing59Minecraft Cobblemon58Team Fortress 2 Control Points58

Readings are kept for 7 days and pruned by the poller, so this page describes the last week rather than all time. Hours are measured in UTC and shown in your own clock — hover any of them to read the UTC figure they were derived from. The answers below stay in UTC, because each one is also published as structured data for search engines, where a reader’s zone means nothing.