The game hit its highest point in years in early 2019, largely thanks to the wildly popular user-made game mode Dota Auto Chess.

Though PUBG has been on a steady decline, Dota 2 continues to wildly swing up and down in terms of its own player count. The game still carries high spec requirements and has a relatively high price tag multiple years after release.Įven if those issues were remedied, the game likely wouldn’t return to its highs of 2017. has done a generally poor job of combating that trend. The rise of Fortnite and Apex Legends has seen players siphoned away by the hundreds of thousands and PUBG Corp. Neither Dota 2 nor CSGO have even peaked to that number, much less contesting PUBG’s numerous indidivual peak counts of over 3 million players.īut it seems that the stiff competition around the battle royale genre has devastated PUBG’s player count over time.

At its highest point, the battle royale title hit average player counts approaching 1.6 million. Though Dota 2 and CSGO both have long histories as the most popular games on Steam, no other game has hit the profounds heights of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ peak. CSGO’s growth comes as PUBG and Dota 2 dip As of this writing, its average player count over the last 30 days is 418,689. Though it hasn’t been reaching the peaks it once did in 2016, CSGO’s average player count has been the highest in its history. Things bounced around from there, but have ticked slowly upwards through much of 2019. The transition to the free-to-play model in December 2018 resulted in a spike in the game’s player count.

Cs source steam charts