How many people are playing Idle Library right now?

Idle Library has 2 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 4 and an all-time peak of 18 on Apr 2026.

What is the all-time peak player count of Idle Library?

18 concurrent players on Apr 2026.

When was Idle Library released on Steam?

Idle Library was released on Steam on 16 Mar 2026.

Idle Library

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Esports25 Jun 2026I made a new game - The Night Librarian 🕯️Hi everyone, Thank you for playing Idle Library - it's meant a lot to have so many of you spend time with a library game I made. I've been working on something new, and I wanted to share it with the people who supported the first one. I also want to be upfront about something. A lot of you gave honest feedback about AI-generated content in Idle Library . I heard you, and I took it seriously - T…

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20 Mar 2026, 23:20 UTC	Major update	Major Update – Collections, Stats, Bug Fixes & More Hey everyone! This is another big update! I've overhauled a huge amount of the game across bugs, balance, features, and UI. Here's everything that changed: 🐛 Bug Fixes • Daily quests now refresh while the game is running — no more restarting to get new quests • Ascension now correctly awards points based on levels gained, not a flat 1 point • Players will be automatically compensated for any m…	22441926
20 Mar 2026, 03:26 UTC	In-game event	Minor Update – Achievements & Theme Polish Hey everyone! I've released a small update today focused on polish and player experience. What's changed: • Removed a handful of achievements that required an unreasonable amount of time to unlock — I want achievements to feel rewarding, not like a chore • Updated themes throughout to better align with the library theme No gameplay changes are included in this update. If you had already unlocke…	22426528
19 Mar 2026, 09:47 UTC	Major update	Idle Library — Major Update: The Grand Overhaul Idle Library — Major Update: The Grand Overhaul First and foremost, thank you for your incredible patience. I have been listening to your feedback and this update represents the most significant changes to Idle Library since launch. I hope it makes the game feel more rewarding, more strategic, and much more worth your time. ⚖️ Balance & Progression · Raised the first prestige threshold from 10,…	22412247
18 Mar 2026, 03:50 UTC	Major update	📚 Idle Library — Major Update: The Grand Ascension 📚 Idle Library — Major Update: The Grand Ascension Thank you all for playing and for your feedback on progression speed. This update brings major rebalancing, a brand new endgame system, and a ton of new content for players who have conquered the library. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔺 NEW — Ascension System ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Once you reach Prestige Level 10, you can now Ascend — a second laye…	22391047

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20 Mar 2026, 23:20 UTC

Major update

Major Update – Collections, Stats, Bug Fixes & More

Hey everyone! This is another big update! I've overhauled a huge amount of the game across bugs, balance, features, and UI. Here's everything that changed: 🐛 Bug Fixes • Daily quests now refresh while the game is running — no more restarting to get new quests • Ascension now correctly awards points based on levels gained, not a flat 1 point • Players will be automatically compensated for any m…

22441926

20 Mar 2026, 03:26 UTC

In-game event

Minor Update – Achievements & Theme Polish

Hey everyone! I've released a small update today focused on polish and player experience. What's changed: • Removed a handful of achievements that required an unreasonable amount of time to unlock — I want achievements to feel rewarding, not like a chore • Updated themes throughout to better align with the library theme No gameplay changes are included in this update. If you had already unlocke…

22426528

19 Mar 2026, 09:47 UTC

Major update

Idle Library — Major Update: The Grand Overhaul

Idle Library — Major Update: The Grand Overhaul First and foremost, thank you for your incredible patience. I have been listening to your feedback and this update represents the most significant changes to Idle Library since launch. I hope it makes the game feel more rewarding, more strategic, and much more worth your time. ⚖️ Balance & Progression · Raised the first prestige threshold from 10,…

22412247

18 Mar 2026, 03:50 UTC

Major update

📚 Idle Library — Major Update: The Grand Ascension

📚 Idle Library — Major Update: The Grand Ascension Thank you all for playing and for your feedback on progression speed. This update brings major rebalancing, a brand new endgame system, and a ton of new content for players who have conquered the library. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔺 NEW — Ascension System ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Once you reach Prestige Level 10, you can now Ascend — a second laye…

22391047