
It reportedly had an average of 22,809 players per hour during the year, outpacing Dark Souls III (14,186), No Man's Sky (8,393), and XCOM 2 (7,815).

Sid Meier's Civilization V / 37,885 avg players per hour (#9 in 2015)Īdditionally, GitHyp released a Top 5 ranking for top peak player count, with Dota 2 also coming out on top in that chart with 1.3 million players.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / 360,600 avg.Average Players Per Hour for Steam Games in 2016: You can see the full Top 5 chart below, which includes comparisons to 2015. Rounding out the top five for the year were Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (360,600), Team Fortress 2 (50,802), Grand Theft Auto V (40,258), and Civilization V (37,885). 1, picking up a reported 636,607 average players per hour during 2016. When looking at the number of players per hour, Valve's free-to-play DOTA 2 was No. We already know the top-grossing games on Steam in 2016, but which games were played the most? GitHyp, which tracks the service's most-played games, has published its report for 2016 ( via Kotaku), revealing that Valve games were the most popular on the platform and no game released in 2016 cracked the top five.
