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How many people still play Natural Selection?

76 players are on the 12 Natural Selection servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 16 listed.

Across the 145 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 50 and 119.

Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 16 Natural Selection 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 Natural Selection 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.

76
Players connected

reported by the servers themselves

12
Servers answering

4 listed but silent

16
Servers listed

every one queried directly

24%
Slots used

of 317 slots those servers reported

These figures rest on 2,320 status checks across 145 measured hours, of which 145 cover enough of the Natural Selection 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, Natural Selection is the 16th busiest of the 32 games JoinGG measures.

This is a small sample — 16 servers on Natural Selection. The counts below are still measurements rather than estimates, but a population read off 16 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 Natural Selection servers, hour by hour

2,320 status checks · 145 hours measured

Mon 01:00 UTC — 115 players on 16 serversMon 03:00 UTC — 117 players on 16 serversMon 04:00 UTC — 117 players on 16 serversMon 05:00 UTC — 117 players on 16 serversMon 06:00 UTC — 119 players on 16 serversMon 07:00 UTC — 104 players on 16 serversMon 08:00 UTC — 115 players on 16 serversMon 09:00 UTC — 103 players on 16 serversMon 10:00 UTC — 117 players on 16 serversMon 12:00 UTC — 115 players on 16 serversMon 13:00 UTC — 112 players on 16 serversMon 14:00 UTC — 119 players on 16 serversMon 15:00 UTC — 106 players on 16 serversMon 16:00 UTC — 113 players on 16 serversMon 17:00 UTC — 117 players on 16 serversMon 18:00 UTC — 115 players on 16 serversMon 20:00 UTC — 115 players on 16 serversMon 21:00 UTC — 119 players on 16 serversMon 22:00 UTC — 113 players on 16 serversMon 23:00 UTC — 105 players on 16 serversTue 00:00 UTC — 115 players on 16 serversTue 01:00 UTC — 119 players on 16 serversTue 02:00 UTC — 103 players on 16 serversTue 04:00 UTC — 117 players on 16 serversTue 05:00 UTC — 103 players on 16 serversTue 06:00 UTC — 119 players on 16 serversTue 07:00 UTC — 115 players on 16 serversTue 08:00 UTC — 117 players on 16 serversTue 10:00 UTC — 115 players on 16 serversTue 11:00 UTC — 111 players on 16 serversTue 12:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversTue 13:00 UTC — 65 players on 16 serversTue 14:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversTue 15:00 UTC — 69 players on 16 serversTue 17:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversTue 18:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversTue 19:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversTue 20:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversTue 21:00 UTC — 64 players on 16 serversTue 22:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversTue 23:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversWed 01:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversWed 02:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversWed 03:00 UTC — 71 players on 16 serversWed 04:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversWed 05:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversWed 06:00 UTC — 74 players on 16 serversWed 07:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversWed 09:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversWed 10:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversWed 11:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversWed 12:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversWed 13:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversWed 14:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversWed 15:00 UTC — 50 players on 16 serversWed 17:00 UTC — 59 players on 16 serversWed 18:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversWed 19:00 UTC — 78 players on 16 serversWed 20:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversWed 21:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversWed 22:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversThu 00:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversThu 01:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversThu 02:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversThu 03:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversThu 04:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversThu 05:00 UTC — 81 players on 16 serversThu 06:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversThu 08:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversThu 09:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversThu 10:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversThu 11:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversThu 12:00 UTC — 65 players on 16 serversThu 13:00 UTC — 66 players on 16 serversThu 15:00 UTC — 52 players on 16 serversThu 16:00 UTC — 65 players on 16 serversThu 17:00 UTC — 69 players on 16 serversThu 18:00 UTC — 61 players on 16 serversThu 19:00 UTC — 70 players on 16 serversThu 20:00 UTC — 67 players on 16 serversThu 22:00 UTC — 69 players on 16 serversThu 23:00 UTC — 63 players on 16 serversFri 00:00 UTC — 63 players on 16 serversFri 01:00 UTC — 69 players on 16 serversFri 02:00 UTC — 65 players on 16 serversFri 03:00 UTC — 76 players on 16 serversFri 05:00 UTC — 71 players on 16 serversFri 06:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversFri 07:00 UTC — 80 players on 16 serversFri 08:00 UTC — 58 players on 16 serversFri 09:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversFri 10:00 UTC — 81 players on 16 serversFri 12:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversFri 13:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversFri 14:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversFri 15:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversFri 16:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversFri 17:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversFri 18:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversFri 19:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversFri 20:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversFri 22:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversFri 23:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversSat 00:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSat 01:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSat 02:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversSat 03:00 UTC — 71 players on 16 serversSat 05:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSat 06:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSat 07:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSat 08:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversSat 09:00 UTC — 74 players on 16 serversSat 11:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversSat 12:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSat 13:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSat 14:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSat 15:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSat 17:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversSat 18:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSat 19:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSat 20:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSat 21:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSat 23:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversSun 00:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversSun 01:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSun 02:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSun 03:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSun 05:00 UTC — 69 players on 16 serversSun 06:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversSun 07:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversSun 08:00 UTC — 71 players on 16 serversSun 09:00 UTC — 81 players on 16 serversSun 11:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSun 12:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSun 13:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversSun 14:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSun 15:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSun 17:00 UTC — 73 players on 16 serversSun 18:00 UTC — 77 players on 16 serversSun 19:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSun 20:00 UTC — 75 players on 16 serversSun 21:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSun 22:00 UTC — 79 players on 16 serversSun 23:00 UTC — 66 players on 16 serversMon 01:00 UTC — 76 players on 16 servers
Mon 01:00 UTCMon 01:00 UTC
Busiest hour measured
119 at Mon 06:00 UTC
Quietest hour measured
50 at Wed 15:00 UTC
Latest sweep
76 players
Hours plotted
145 of 145

The other player count

There is no Valve figure to put next to this one

Steam counts it under app id 70, which Half-Life uses too, so there is one Valve figure for the two of them. It sits on the Half-Life page rather than being printed twice here and inviting anyone to add them up. The count on this page is ours, measured the way the rest of it was.

Where those players are right now

The Natural Selection 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.

The Natural Selection servers listed on JoinGG with the most players on them at the last status query, with the player count, map and round trip each one reported.
ServerMapPlayersPingWhere
[AU] RTS | The Umbra Core | Bots + CommAIco_sava14 / 32641 msAustralia 🇦🇺
^|TwoTeamSquad|^[NS|Evobot|EU]ns_lost14 / 3264 msHungary 🇭🇺
TheSandbox Marine Training Facility v3.2 [fast dl]ns_eon13 / 20100 msUnited States 🇺🇸
[APG] - NS 3.3b [Stats|FastDL]co_faceoff12 / 2131 msFrance 🇫🇷
^|TwoTeamSquad|^[CO|ExLVL|EU]co_niveus11 / 2066 msHungary 🇭🇺
TheSandbox Alien's Rampage v3.2 [fast dl]ns_rampage10 / 20103 msUnited States 🇺🇸
naturalselection.es - pubs - bots - ESco_faceoff2 / 32110 msSpain 🇪🇸
All 16 Natural Selection servers

What they are actually playing

The count above is people on servers, and servers run modes. These are taken from what the Natural Selection servers report they are running, not from what their names say.

Bunny Hop1

Natural Selection player counts — the questions

Is Natural Selection still alive in 2026?
Yes, and this is the measurement rather than an opinion. 76 players are on the 12 Natural Selection servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 16 listed. Across the 145 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 50 and 119. Every one of those numbers came from asking the servers themselves.
When is Natural Selection busiest?
Around 04:00 UTC. Averaged over 4 days of readings, that hour carries about 98 players across the Natural Selection servers listed here.
How many Natural Selection servers are there?
16 Natural Selection servers are listed on JoinGG, and 12 of them answered the last status query. The other 4 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 16 Natural Selection 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 Natural Selection 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.

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