How many people are playing Heart of the Machine right now?

Heart of the Machine is not in the Twitch ring: viewers are sampled every 10 minutes for the hundred most played games and every watched game (374 games since 3 Sep 2026), so there is no viewer series to set against its players yet. Watching the game adds it to the ring.

Hours, Honestly

How long people play Heart of the Machine

Every game How this is computedComputed 16 Sep 2026, 15:32 UTC

Median hours

24.1 h

of 200 sampled reviewers, reviews since 1 May 2026

Middle half

10.7 h to 58.7 h

25th to 75th percentile; one in ten past 109 h

Under 2 hours

9.5%

reviews written inside the refund window; median 17.7 h at writing

Over 100 hours

13.0%

of the sampled reviewers, total playtime

Cost per hour

$1.24per hour

at today’s price, $29.99, over the median

Total hours of the sampled reviewers · share of 200 reviews

under 1 h5.5%

1–2 h2.5%

2–5 h5.5%

5–10 h10.0%

10–20 h20.0%

20–50 h26.0%

50–100 h17.5%

100 h and more13.0%

Finish funnel · achievements by global unlock share

No funnel yet

Heart of the Machine lists 284 achievements, but their global unlock shares have not been read yet; the achievements poller reaches every game with achievements in turn, and the funnel job orders them the next day.

Playtime is that of people who reviewed, from the 200 reviews SteamPeaks sampled for Heart of the Machine: their total hours when the sample was read, and the hours they had when writing (the refund-window share). Reviewers have usually played more than owners who never wrote a review. Recomputed daily. How this is computed. Data by SteamPeaks.com.

Best Time to Play

When Heart of the Machine is busiest

How this is computedHourly sample 16 Sep 2026, 21:00 UTC

Needs four weeks of hourly samples, 3 on file (252 hourly rows since 6 Sep 2026, 07:00 UTC). The weekly activity job writes the profile once 4 distinct weeks fall inside its 8-week window; the fourth week of samples begins on 21 Sep 2026, so the heatmap can appear with the job’s first run after that.

Lifespan

How games like Heart of the Machine hold their players

Every game How this is computedCurves computed 12 Sep 2026, 15:26 UTC

Heart of the Machine’s monthly averages begin in Feb 2025, more than two months after its 6 Mar 2026 release, so its series is not a launch curve and the job leaves it off rather than measure from the wrong start. The cohort’s own curve is shown.

Share of the launch level by month since launch · strategy games · 454 games at launch

Middle half of strategy gamesMedian strategy gameHalf of launch

The band is the 25th to 75th percentile share of the launch level among strategy games at each month since launch, with their median as the line; a game joins a curve after 6 months of averages. Recomputed weekly, last on 12 Sep 2026. How this is computed. Data by SteamPeaks.com.