Valve has released a rather interesting list of the top played games on the Steam Deck over the last seven days and MultiVersus is on the top of the pile.
This comes to us from the official Steam Deck Twitter account @onDeck which is sharing this kind of information for the first time.
“We love seeing what games folks play on Steam Deck vs Desktop – for example, these are are the top 10 titles of the past week on Deck! (the list … is sorted by daily average user),” a tweet reads.
- MultiVersus
- Vampire Survivors
- Stray
- ELDEN RING
- No Man’s Sky
- Hades
- Stardew Valley
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Aperture Desk Job
- MONSTER HUNTER RISE
What makes this particularly interesting is that MultiVersus is a multiplayer-focused game, and even though it veers into the casual side of gaming, we would have guessed that more people would play this one with a wired setup on a notebook or desktop for the best possible internet connection.
That being said Valve is working to make the Steam Deck’s WiFi as solid as possible with the most recent update to the handheld PC addressing disconnection issues when using a 5Ghz line.
Unfortunately, despite making mention of a comparison to desktop users, Valve doesn’t provide a similar list to compare the above to, so we have to get our own.
Our list below is from the official Game and Player Statistics page from Valve itself which is a constantly updated hub for the number of players on steam.
There’s no way to just show desktop users so the numbers below will also contain those on Steam Deck. It’s still worth looking at, however, to see what’s popular on Steam overall compared to just the Steam Deck.
MultiVersus goes from first place in the top 10 to last place which is still an impressive feat given how new the title is. More multiplayer titles, many of which you’d probably want to play on mouse and keyboard, instead inhabit most of the top spots here.
Game | Current Players | Peak Today |
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 523 806 | 906 948 |
Dota 2 | 338 203 | 620 403 |
Apex Legends | 187 636 | 333 275 |
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS | 178 347 | 360 837 |
Grand Theft Auto V | 111 606 | 179 12 |
Lost Ark | 94 128 | 227 402 |
Team Fortress 2 | 78 334 | 98 286 |
Wallpaper Engine | 64 474 | 87 329 |
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT | 60 844 | 85 226 |
MultiVersus | 60 546 | 115 957 |