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Top 15 shooter games on PC right now

Top 15 shooter games on PC by live players · 23 September 2026

Snapshot at 7:33pm Dubai time, 23 September 2026. Most counts are exact live figures from Steam's own chart. Fortnite and Valorant are not on Steam: Fortnite comes from Fortnite.GG, and Valorant has no public live count, so its figure is a modelled estimate.

#	Game	Players now	24-hour peak	Source
1	Fortnite	1,455,617	1,147,477 in a match	Fortnite.GG, all platforms, all modes
2	Counter-Strike 2	1,336,837	1,452,036	Steam
3	Valorant	580K to 780K (estimate)	n/a	ActivePlayer, modelled
4	PUBG: Battlegrounds	571,686	731,479	Steam
5	WARDOGS	238,920	302,873	Steam
6	Apex Legends	190,063	254,139	Steam only
7	Rust	95,507	103,118	Steam
8	Delta Force	94,363	114,606	Steam only
9	Warframe	92,971	92,971	Steam only
10	Team Fortress 2	65,680	71,144	Steam
11	Helldivers 2	62,405	79,947	Steam
12	Overwatch	59,687	68,992	Steam only
13	Rainbow Six Siege	59,120	80,197	Steam only
14	Marvel Rivals	52,662	91,844	Steam
15	Deadlock	51,854	72,432	Steam

How to read it

"Steam only" means the real number is higher. Overwatch also runs on Battle.net, Apex on the EA app, and Siege on Ubisoft Connect, and none of those publish counts.
Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty would rank higher on full numbers. On Steam they show 30,272 and 26,371, below this top 15. Most of their PC players are on the EA app and Battle.net, plus consoles.
Fortnite's figure covers every mode. Battle Royale itself is about 270,000 right now, and Reload another 132,000.
Valorant estimates vary widely. Tracker Network counts about 5.2 million players a day among the players it tracks. Riot's last official figure was 35 million a month, in October 2024.
Mobile is excluded. PUBG Mobile, Free Fire and Call of Duty Mobile are huge, but they are not PC games.

What matters for Hypertune

WARDOGS is new. A 100-player tactical first-person shooter that launched on 10 September and is already the third-biggest shooter on Steam. No planned game page covers it, and an early settings and FPS guide could rank before competitors move.
Our Search Console games are near the top. Valorant, Fortnite and Rust, the three with the most game-related search impressions, all rank in the top 7, so the first wave of game pages is aimed at the right titles.
Marvel Rivals peaked at 92,000 in the last 24 hours, well above its current 53,000. Useful context for the team deal.