Never buy into a dead game again.

Track live Steam player counts, Twitch viewers, and review trends before you waste your time or money.

Steam Ranker helps you spot which Steam games are actually alive, which ones are falling off, and which launches are holding up after the marketing smoke clears. Get current player counts, all-time peak players, historical player trends, live Twitch viewers, and review shifts in one place. Updated every 15 minutes.

We track the games people actually care about: new launches, multiplayer games, live-service titles, breakout indie hits, and games losing players in real time. Curated, not cluttered.

Built for the checks you'd actually run.

  1. 01Before you buy a multiplayer game.
  2. 02A month after launch, when the hype's cooled.
  3. 03When the Discord argument needs receipts.

Real numbers. Real trends. No PR filter.

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Above 10K CCU

How the data works

Sources, cadence, and what we compute

SteamLive concurrent players via the ISteamUserStats API. Also pulls game metadata, screenshots, descriptions, prices, and content descriptors.
OpenCriticTop Critic Score where available.
IGDBAggregated critic scores. Fallback when OpenCritic doesn't list a game.
TwitchLive viewer counts and 24h, 7d, and 30d viewer trends per game via the Twitch API.

Sync runs every 15 minutes. We compute 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day deltas, an all-time peak, a trending score that blends magnitude with recency, and a sentiment signal from review-positivity shifts. All data is from public sources.

For the full breakdown of the trending score formula, calibration numbers, and the rules behind each insight type, read the full methodology.

You got that wrong?!

Mistakes happen. Tell me when they do.

If something on this site looks wrong, it probably is. Numbers get pulled from APIs that sometimes lie or go stale. AI writes the story headlines. So does most games journalism these days. Difference is, the trigger here is the data itself, not a publisher push or a marketing beat. A story only fires when the numbers cross a threshold. No astroturf, no spin. The downside is there's no human editor catching every weird phrasing the AI invents, so edge cases slip through.

You're not wrong to be annoyed about it. I'm one guy automating a pile of moving parts, and when the output is bad I want to know. DM @SteamRanker on X with the specifics: which page, which card, what you expected, what you saw. The more specific you are, the faster I can fix the actual thing. For anything that needs a written record or an attachment, the contact page has the email address.

Built and maintained by Andrew Chaisson. Nova Scotia, Canada.

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