How many people are playing Dota 2 right now?

Dota 2 has 495,689 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 919,002 and an all-time peak of 1,291,328 on Mar 2016.

What is the all-time peak player count of Dota 2?

1,291,328 concurrent players on Mar 2016.

When was Dota 2 released on Steam?

Dota 2 was released on Steam on 9 Jul 2013.

Dota 2

Steam user reviews · 2,773,204 written

Updated 9 hours ago

SteamPeaks Rating

84.1

Positive · recent 80.5

Positive share

80.5%Very Positive

Last 30 days

67.9%−12.6 pts

23,248 reviews written

Played before writing

803.7 h

Median of 300 sampled reviews

Reviews per day

775

Mean over the last 30 days

How sentiment moved · share of new reviews that were positive

182 months on record

300 recent reviews sampled · back to 3 Sep 2026

Who is reviewing

Playtime at the moment each review was written

476.1 h

Median before a positive review

1572.6 h

Median before a negative review

100%

Bought the game on Steam

0% arrived with a free key

Played mostly on Steam Deck

Hours played	Positive	Negative	Positive share
Under 1 h	2	0	100%
1–5 h	6	2	75%
5–20 h	22	2	92%
20–50 h	20	3	87%
50–100 h	11	4	73%
Over 100 h	134	94	59%

Steam’s own totals per language

Where opinion splits

Against the lifetime share

Language	Reviews	Positive	Against overall
Russian	1,385,739	75.1%	−5.4 pts
English	837,459	87.9%	+7.4 pts
Chinese, simplified	206,559	78.7%	−1.8 pts
Spanish	121,757	91.0%	+10.5 pts
Portuguese, Brazil	58,277	87.9%	+7.4 pts
Ukrainian	35,953	72.1%	−8.5 pts

Counted from the review histogram

Milestones

Days from the first reviewed month

Milestone	Reached	Days taken
1,000 reviews	Dec 2011	122
10,000 reviews	Oct 2012	427
100,000 reviews	Feb 2014	915
500,000 reviews	May 2016	1,735
1,000,000 reviews	Jul 2019	2,891

Every month since Aug 2011

Review history

Exact counts from Valve’s histogram

Month	Reviews	Positive	Negative	Positive share
Sept 2026	2,319	1,595	724	68.8%
Aug 2026	24,362	16,512	7,850	67.8%
Jul 2026	21,349	14,531	6,818	68.1%
Jun 2026	18,585	12,487	6,098	67.2%
May 2026	17,347	11,777	5,570	67.9%
Apr 2026	17,609	11,873	5,736	67.4%
Mar 2026	21,022	13,720	7,302	65.3%
Feb 2026	17,184	11,987	5,197	69.8%

Counts per month and per day come from Valve’s review histogram, so they are exact. Playtime, purchase and language detail come from a sample of the most recent reviews; we keep no reviewer identity and no review text. The SteamPeaks Rating is a confidence-adjusted positive share. How it is computed