How many people are playing Half-Life: Alyx 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

87.9%

unlocked the most common achievement

Finished

no finish match

none of the 42 achievements reads like the end of the game

Everything

1.7%

unlocked the rarest achievement

Achievements

with an unlock share on 7 Sep 2026

Gnome Alonestarted87.9%

Hit and Run86.7%

Dead Giveaway82.2%

Quaranta Giorni76.4%

Smash and Grab68.1%

Up in Arms67.2%

Sustenance65.2%

Zombie with a Shotgun62.4%

Mag-Snagger56.8%

Good Grub56.6%

31 more achievements between

Gnome Vault of My Owneverything1.7%

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 Half-Life: Alyx?

Every game How this is computedNot sampled

Half-Life: Alyx is not in the Twitch ring: viewers are sampled every 10 minutes for the hundred most played games and every watched game (364 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 Half-Life: Alyx is busiest

How this is computedHourly sample 20 minutes ago

Needs four weeks of hourly samples, 2 on file (73 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 Half-Life: Alyx holds its players

Every game How this is computedComputed 3 days ago

Quieter than 65% of games at month 77.

Launch level

7,585

average players, best of the first three months from Mar 2020

Share now

3.0%

of the launch level, Aug 2026, month 77

Half-life

1 month

first month under half of launch; the launch month holds the launch spike

Standing

35th

percentile among games at month 77

Revivals

no month after the first year above 1.5× the prior six

Share of the launch level by month since launch · games · 13,558 games at launch

Half-Life: AlyxMiddle half of gamesMedian gamesHalf of launch

Monthly averages from the imported archive and SteamPeaks’ own daily rollups after it, Mar 2020 to Aug 2026, each month divided by the launch level (7,585). The band is the 25th to 75th percentile of games at each month since launch (13,558 games at launch); the half-life is the first month under half, counting from the month the launch level was set. No projection: the cohort has no curve twelve months beyond this game’s age. Recomputed weekly, last on 5 Sep 2026. How this is computed. Data by SteamPeaks.com.