Measured, not estimated
How many people still play Fortress Forever?
12 players are on the 5 Fortress Forever servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 6 listed.
Across the 146 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 0 and 33.
Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 6 Fortress Forever servers listed here every hour, over Valve's A2S status query (the same request the in-game server browser makes), and write down what each one answers. Nothing is scraped from another site, modelled, or extrapolated to servers we do not list — which is also the limit of it: these are the Fortress Forever servers on JoinGG, so read the counts as a large sample of public community servers rather than as a census of the game.
Last sweep . This page rebuilds every five minutes.
- 12
- Players connected
- 5
- Servers answering
- 6
- Servers listed
- 9.2%
- Slots used
reported by the servers themselves
1 listed but silent
every one queried directly
of 130 slots those servers reported
These figures rest on 876 status checks across 146 measured hours, of which 146 cover enough of the Fortress Forever list to compare with the others. Readings are kept for 7 days, so this page gets deeper as they accumulate rather than longer. By players on listed servers, Fortress Forever is the 23rd busiest of the 32 games JoinGG measures.
This is a small sample — 6 servers on Fortress Forever. The counts below are still measurements rather than estimates, but a population read off 6 servers moves when one operator reboots, so treat it as what these servers are doing rather than as what the game is doing. The whole network is the wider view.
Players on Fortress Forever servers, hour by hour
876 status checks · 146 hours measured
- Busiest hour measured
- 33 at Fri 19:00 UTC
- Quietest hour measured
- 0 at Sun 15:00 UTC
- Latest sweep
- 12 players
- Hours plotted
- 146 of 146
The other player count
There is no Valve figure to put next to this one
It is a mod rather than a game with a Steam population of its own, and the app id available for it does not count the people on these servers — so the column stays empty rather than carrying a number about a different set of players. The count on this page is ours, measured the way the rest of it was.
Where those players are right now
The Fortress Forever listings with the most people on them at the last sweep. Every figure in the row is what that server answered — the ping is our round trip to it, not yours, so read it as a rough measure of where the box is rather than of what you will get.
| Server | Map | Players | Ping | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [APG] - FF 2013 #2 apg-clan.org | ff_bases | 12 / 20 | 19 ms | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 |
Fortress Forever player counts — the questions
- Is Fortress Forever still alive in 2026?
- Yes, and this is the measurement rather than an opinion. 12 players are on the 5 Fortress Forever servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 6 listed. Across the 146 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 0 and 33. Every one of those numbers came from asking the servers themselves.
- When is Fortress Forever busiest?
- Around 02:00 UTC. Averaged over 6 days of readings, that hour carries about 18 players across the Fortress Forever servers listed here.
- How many Fortress Forever servers are there?
- 6 Fortress Forever servers are listed on JoinGG, and 5 of them answered the last status query. The other 1 stayed silent, which is recorded as silent rather than as empty — a server that does not answer and a server with nobody on it are different facts and we only measured one of them.
- How is this counted?
- Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 6 Fortress Forever servers listed here every hour, over Valve's A2S status query (the same request the in-game server browser makes), and write down what each one answers. Nothing is scraped from another site, modelled, or extrapolated to servers we do not list — which is also the limit of it: these are the Fortress Forever servers on JoinGG, so read the counts as a large sample of public community servers rather than as a census of the game.
Readings are kept for 7 days and pruned by the poller, so this page describes the last week rather than all time — it gets deeper as readings accumulate rather than longer. Hours are measured in UTC and shown in your own clock; hover any of them to read the UTC figure behind it. The answers above stay in UTC, because each is also published as structured data for search engines, where a reader’s zone means nothing.
How many people still play the others
Every game JoinGG measures with enough servers behind it to publish, busiest first. The number on each is the players we can see on its listed servers right now.
