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How many people still play Team Fortress 2?

1,925 players are on the 528 Team Fortress 2 servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 568 listed.

Across the 113 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 1,466 and 3,393.

Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 568 Team Fortress 2 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 Team Fortress 2 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.

1,925
Players connected

reported by the servers themselves

528
Servers answering

40 listed but silent

568
Servers listed

every one queried directly

12%
Slots used

of 15,977 slots those servers reported

These figures rest on 81,991 status checks across 169 measured hours, of which 113 cover enough of the Team Fortress 2 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, Team Fortress 2 is the 5th busiest of the 32 games JoinGG measures.

Players on Team Fortress 2 servers, hour by hour

81,991 status checks · 169 hours measured

Mon 07:00 UTC — only 487 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 08:00 UTC — only 81 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 09:00 UTC — 1,710 players on 568 serversMon 10:00 UTC — 1,906 players on 566 serversMon 11:00 UTC — only 480 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 12:00 UTC — 1,988 players on 568 serversMon 13:00 UTC — 1,943 players on 568 serversMon 14:00 UTC — 2,162 players on 568 serversMon 15:00 UTC — 2,330 players on 559 serversMon 16:00 UTC — only 421 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 17:00 UTC — only 237 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 18:00 UTC — 2,625 players on 557 serversMon 19:00 UTC — only 489 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 20:00 UTC — 2,754 players on 568 serversMon 21:00 UTC — 2,406 players on 559 serversMon 22:00 UTC — 2,419 players on 568 serversMon 23:00 UTC — 2,388 players on 568 serversTue 00:00 UTC — 2,313 players on 568 serversTue 01:00 UTC — only 81 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 02:00 UTC — 2,181 players on 568 serversTue 03:00 UTC — only 487 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 04:00 UTC — 1,777 players on 559 serversTue 05:00 UTC — 1,696 players on 568 serversTue 06:00 UTC — 1,638 players on 568 serversTue 07:00 UTC — 1,681 players on 559 serversTue 08:00 UTC — only 90 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 09:00 UTC — only 487 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 10:00 UTC — 1,784 players on 559 serversTue 11:00 UTC — 1,869 players on 568 serversTue 12:00 UTC — 1,852 players on 568 serversTue 13:00 UTC — 2,026 players on 559 serversTue 14:00 UTC — only 198 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 15:00 UTC — only 460 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 16:00 UTC — only 487 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 17:00 UTC — 2,590 players on 559 serversTue 18:00 UTC — 2,625 players on 568 serversTue 19:00 UTC — 2,620 players on 568 serversTue 20:00 UTC — 2,527 players on 559 serversTue 21:00 UTC — only 90 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 22:00 UTC — 2,370 players on 568 serversTue 23:00 UTC — 2,167 players on 546 serversWed 00:00 UTC — only 500 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 01:00 UTC — 2,307 players on 568 serversWed 02:00 UTC — 2,075 players on 559 serversWed 03:00 UTC — 1,997 players on 568 serversWed 04:00 UTC — 1,854 players on 568 serversWed 05:00 UTC — 1,709 players on 567 serversWed 06:00 UTC — only 82 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 07:00 UTC — 1,813 players on 568 serversWed 08:00 UTC — only 487 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 09:00 UTC — 1,744 players on 559 serversWed 10:00 UTC — 1,929 players on 568 serversWed 11:00 UTC — 1,974 players on 568 serversWed 12:00 UTC — 1,958 players on 559 serversWed 13:00 UTC — 2,150 players on 567 serversWed 14:00 UTC — only 91 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 15:00 UTC — 2,420 players on 568 serversWed 16:00 UTC — only 478 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 17:00 UTC — 2,681 players on 568 serversWed 18:00 UTC — 2,689 players on 567 serversWed 19:00 UTC — 2,604 players on 558 serversWed 20:00 UTC — 2,595 players on 568 serversWed 21:00 UTC — only 90 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 22:00 UTC — 2,208 players on 558 serversWed 23:00 UTC — only 488 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 00:00 UTC — 2,194 players on 568 serversThu 01:00 UTC — 2,016 players on 557 serversThu 02:00 UTC — 2,139 players on 568 serversThu 03:00 UTC — 1,868 players on 568 serversThu 04:00 UTC — 1,771 players on 566 serversThu 05:00 UTC — only 82 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 06:00 UTC — 1,580 players on 568 serversThu 07:00 UTC — only 487 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 08:00 UTC — 1,565 players on 558 serversThu 09:00 UTC — 1,715 players on 568 serversThu 10:00 UTC — 1,859 players on 568 serversThu 11:00 UTC — 1,914 players on 557 serversThu 12:00 UTC — only 91 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 13:00 UTC — 2,240 players on 568 serversThu 14:00 UTC — only 477 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 15:00 UTC — 2,261 players on 568 serversThu 16:00 UTC — 2,609 players on 568 serversThu 17:00 UTC — 2,572 players on 557 serversThu 18:00 UTC — 2,912 players on 567 serversThu 19:00 UTC — only 92 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 20:00 UTC — 2,350 players on 565 serversThu 21:00 UTC — only 480 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 22:00 UTC — 2,404 players on 568 serversThu 23:00 UTC — 2,343 players on 567 serversFri 00:00 UTC — 2,264 players on 558 serversFri 01:00 UTC — 2,184 players on 568 serversFri 02:00 UTC — only 90 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 03:00 UTC — 1,867 players on 558 serversFri 04:00 UTC — only 488 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 05:00 UTC — 1,850 players on 568 serversFri 06:00 UTC — 1,685 players on 557 serversFri 07:00 UTC — 1,774 players on 568 serversFri 08:00 UTC — 1,737 players on 568 serversFri 09:00 UTC — only 478 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 10:00 UTC — only 170 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 11:00 UTC — only 488 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 12:00 UTC — 1,973 players on 567 serversFri 13:00 UTC — 2,140 players on 558 serversFri 14:00 UTC — 2,274 players on 568 serversFri 15:00 UTC — 2,525 players on 568 serversFri 16:00 UTC — only 80 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 17:00 UTC — 2,594 players on 551 serversFri 18:00 UTC — 2,916 players on 568 serversFri 19:00 UTC — 2,896 players on 568 serversFri 20:00 UTC — only 238 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 21:00 UTC — 2,189 players on 524 serversFri 22:00 UTC — 2,662 players on 568 serversFri 23:00 UTC — only 473 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 00:00 UTC — 2,131 players on 558 serversSat 01:00 UTC — 2,381 players on 568 serversSat 02:00 UTC — only 139 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 03:00 UTC — 2,244 players on 566 serversSat 04:00 UTC — 1,735 players on 535 serversSat 05:00 UTC — only 494 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 06:00 UTC — 1,754 players on 568 serversSat 07:00 UTC — 1,466 players on 527 serversSat 08:00 UTC — only 139 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 09:00 UTC — 1,947 players on 568 serversSat 10:00 UTC — 1,586 players on 533 serversSat 11:00 UTC — only 504 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 12:00 UTC — 2,300 players on 558 serversSat 13:00 UTC — 1,995 players on 538 serversSat 14:00 UTC — only 219 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 15:00 UTC — only 477 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 16:00 UTC — 2,649 players on 544 serversSat 17:00 UTC — only 504 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 18:00 UTC — 2,977 players on 547 serversSat 19:00 UTC — 2,210 players on 538 serversSat 20:00 UTC — only 330 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 21:00 UTC — only 377 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 22:00 UTC — 2,150 players on 533 serversSat 23:00 UTC — 2,583 players on 568 serversSun 00:00 UTC — only 494 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 01:00 UTC — 2,247 players on 568 serversSun 02:00 UTC — 1,575 players on 527 serversSun 03:00 UTC — only 139 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 04:00 UTC — 1,875 players on 544 serversSun 05:00 UTC — 1,998 players on 568 serversSun 06:00 UTC — only 483 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 07:00 UTC — 1,511 players on 538 serversSun 08:00 UTC — 2,165 players on 568 serversSun 09:00 UTC — only 131 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 10:00 UTC — 2,071 players on 544 serversSun 11:00 UTC — 2,522 players on 568 serversSun 12:00 UTC — only 491 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 13:00 UTC — 2,083 players on 530 serversSun 14:00 UTC — 3,230 players on 568 serversSun 15:00 UTC — only 139 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 16:00 UTC — 2,697 players on 541 serversSun 17:00 UTC — only 504 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 18:00 UTC — 3,393 players on 568 serversSun 19:00 UTC — 3,005 players on 560 serversSun 20:00 UTC — 2,994 players on 568 serversSun 21:00 UTC — 2,663 players on 555 serversSun 22:00 UTC — only 109 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 23:00 UTC — 2,586 players on 560 serversMon 00:00 UTC — 2,159 players on 544 serversMon 01:00 UTC — only 501 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 02:00 UTC — 2,348 players on 560 serversMon 03:00 UTC — 2,299 players on 558 serversMon 04:00 UTC — only 419 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 05:00 UTC — only 247 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 06:00 UTC — 1,795 players on 544 serversMon 07:00 UTC — only 493 of 568 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparable
Mon 07:00 UTCMon 07:00 UTC
Busiest hour measured
3,393 at Sun 18:00 UTC
Quietest hour measured
1,466 at Sat 07:00 UTC
Latest sweep
1,795 players
Hours plotted
113 of 169

56 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.

The other player count

1,925
Players here

on the 528 servers JoinGG reached

83,361
In game (Valve)

everyone running it anywhere, per Steam

These two count different things

Players here is ours: people connected to the Team Fortress 2 servers JoinGG lists, counted by asking each server. In game (Valve) is Steam's live count of everyone running Team Fortress 2 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 both are printed and neither is divided by the other.

Valve's figure comes from the Steam Web API and is cached for an hour, so it can lag ours by up to that much.

Where those players are right now

The Team Fortress 2 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 Team Fortress 2 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
skial.com | ZOMBIE ESCAPE | US ██ze_best_korea_skial_452 / 642 msUkraine 🇺🇦
RU █ CHILLOUT.PW █ 2FORT HELLctf_2fort48 / 64118 msRussia 🇷🇺
skial.com | 2FORT+ | US 1 ████ctf_2fort44 / 643 msUkraine 🇺🇦
[US] Bangerz.TF Engineer Fortress || 32 HUMANS MAXpl_camber38 / 70357 msUnited States 🇺🇸
2Fctf_2fort36 / 482 msUnited States 🇺🇸
[US] Bangerz.TF Engineer Fortress #1 || 32 HUMANS MAXcp_fastlane33 / 70302 msUnited States 🇺🇸
skial.com | 2FORT+ | AU █████ctf_2fort31 / 322 msAustralia 🇦🇺
skial.com | DEATH RUN | US ████dr_scooby_doo_v5a31 / 323 msUkraine 🇺🇦
RU █ CHILLOUT.PW █ DOUBLECROSSctf_doublecross30 / 64145 msRussia 🇷🇺
SickFrags.com #1 | Public Strange Farmingstrange_level_ultra_final30 / 3233 msGermany 🇩🇪
All 568 Team Fortress 2 servers

What they are actually playing

The count above is people on servers, and servers run modes. These are taken from what the Team Fortress 2 servers report they are running, not from what their names say.

Capture the Flag79Payload64Control Points58Trade38Mann vs Machine35Jump31MGE24King of the Hill22Versus Saxton Hale21Deathrun11Surf11Jailbreak10Zombie6Prop Hunt4Minigames1

Team Fortress 2 player counts — the questions

Is Team Fortress 2 still alive in 2026?
Yes, and this is the measurement rather than an opinion. 1,925 players are on the 528 Team Fortress 2 servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 568 listed. Across the 113 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 1,466 and 3,393. Every one of those numbers came from asking the servers themselves.
When is Team Fortress 2 busiest?
Around 18:00 UTC. Averaged over 7 days of readings, that hour carries about 2,877 players across the Team Fortress 2 servers listed here.
How many Team Fortress 2 servers are there?
568 Team Fortress 2 servers are listed on JoinGG, and 528 of them answered the last status query. The other 40 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.
Why is this different from Steam's Team Fortress 2 player count?
They measure different populations. Steam counts everybody running Team Fortress 2 anywhere right now — official matchmaking, single-player, community servers and idle menus — and reports 83,361. We count people connected to the 528 Team Fortress 2 servers we reached, which is 1,925. Neither figure is a subset of the other that we can compute, so both are printed and neither is divided by the other.
How is this counted?
Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 568 Team Fortress 2 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 Team Fortress 2 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.

Minecraft36,254FiveM29,171Counter-Strike 1.68,183Counter-Strike: Source3,485Garry's Mod1,610Counter-Strike 21,265Counter-Strike: Global Offensive393Day of Defeat349Half-Life281Left 4 Dead 2276Counter-Strike: Condition Zero264Day of Defeat: Source244Team Fortress Classic214Half-Life 2: Deathmatch133Natural Selection75Insurgency (2014)55Left 4 Dead33Zombie Panic! Source33Rust31Fortress Forever12Space Engineers117 Days to Die6Alien Swarm1Insurgency (Source)0