How many people are playing Nuclear Throne right now?

Sample too small: no sampled review with a playtime on file, 30 needed before the figures are written. The reviews poller samples each game’s reviews in turn; the funnel job reads them daily.

Finish funnel · achievements by global unlock share

No achievement marks the end

Started

85.1%

unlocked the most common achievement

Finished

no finish match

none of the 59 achievements reads like the end of the game

Everything

0.6%

unlocked the rarest achievement

Achievements

with an unlock share on 7 Sep 2026

Melting Unlockedstarted85.1%

Bandit Stopper79.5%

Eyes Unlocked78.2%

Plant Unlocked73.3%

Dog Owner55.2%

Robot Unlocked48.1%

Sincere Apologies43.1%

Hunter Killer36.4%

Steroids Unlocked33.4%

Y.V. Unlocked31.4%

48 more achievements between

Amateur Hour Is Overeverything0.6%

Global unlock shares from Steam’s own achievement percentages, read on 7 Sep 2026, ordered most common first. The finish rules (beat the game, completed the story, final boss, credits, epilogue and their variants) matched no name or description, so the funnel has no finish step rather than a guessed one. Shares are of players who have the game on their account, as Steam counts them. How this is computed. Data by SteamPeaks.com.

Streamer Effect

Do streams move Nuclear Throne?

Every game How this is computedNot sampled

Nuclear Throne is not in the Twitch ring: viewers are sampled every 10 minutes for the hundred most played games and every watched game (351 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.

Best Time to Play

When Nuclear Throne is busiest

How this is computedHourly sample 12 minutes ago

Needs four weeks of hourly samples, 2 on file (59 hourly rows since 5 Sep 2026, 08:00 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 Nuclear Throne hold their players

Every game How this is computedCurves computed 46 hours ago

Nuclear Throne’s monthly averages begin in Oct 2013, more than two months after its 5 Dec 2015 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 · games · 13,558 games at launch

Middle half of gamesMedian gamesHalf of launch

The band is the 25th to 75th percentile share of the launch level among 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 5 Sep 2026. How this is computed. Data by SteamPeaks.com.