Steam Player Count

How many people play Diablo 4 on Steam right now, when in the day and week they play, how many stayed after launch and where we think the count goes next, worked out by Vi.ki from Steam's hourly count.

5:08 Diablo 4's player count on Steam is read every hour by Vi.ki from Steam's own public count, and this page turns those readings into what no chart shows: the busiest and quietest hours, the busiest day of the week, how much of the launch crowd stayed, the trend and our outlook. The chart itself is on the home page.

Vi.ki's analysis of the Steam counts

What follows is worked out by Vi.ki from Steam's own hourly count, which we record every hour, and is found nowhere else: the hour of the day and the day of the week people play, how many stayed after launch, the trend, the rank among the games Vi.ki charts, and our own outlook. It updates every hour.

Diablo 4 had 5,584 players on Steam at the latest hourly reading (Nov 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC), with a peak of 7,264 in the 24 hours before it. That is 9% of its all-time peak, and the best day of the last 30 reached 34% of it.

Latest reading	5,584 (Nov 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC)
Peak, last 24 hours	7,264
All-time peak	64,518 (on May 3, 2026)
Average daily peak, last 7 days	8,319 (−24% on the week before)
Average daily peak, last 30 days	13,015 (−64% on the 30 days before)

When people play: the hour of the day

Over the last 25 days, Steam's count was highest at 16:00 UTC (8 AM in Los Angeles, 11 AM in New York, 4 PM in London, 5 PM in Berlin, 1 AM in Tokyo), when it ran 25% above the day's average, and lowest at 07:00 UTC, 21% below it. The busiest hour had 1.6 times the players of the quietest. For the fullest lobbies and shortest queues, play near the peak; for quiet servers, near the low.

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When people play: the day of the week

Over the last eight weeks, the busiest day was Sunday, whose peak ran 21% above the week around it, and the quietest was Thursday, 11% below it. Weekend peaks averaged +27% against weekday peaks.

How many stayed after launch

Diablo 4 opened with a best day of 13,617 players in its first two weeks; a month on, its daily peak averaged 8,238, so it kept 60% of its launch crowd and lost about 40% in its first month. Among the 15 launches Vi.ki charts from day one, the typical game kept 42% after a month; Diablo 4 kept more than 11 of the other 14.

Against the best day of the first two weeks after Steam and Season of Blood (Oct 17, 2023), 13,617 players, the average daily peak of the week around each mark:

After	Daily peak	Of the launch peak
7 days	11,094	81%
30 days	8,238	60%
90 days	6,764	50%
180 days	4,369	32%
1 year	43,640	320%
2 years	22,285	164%

Among the games Vi.ki charts

By the peak of the last 24 hours, Diablo 4 is #19 of the 25 games with a Steam chart on Vi.ki, just behind Final Fantasy Resonance (10,966) and ahead of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era (4,190).

Our outlook

We think Diablo 4 is cooling: over the last four weeks its daily peak fell 22% a week. Declines like this usually slow, so if nothing changes we expect daily peaks near 2,262 three months from now; the next big update is what would turn it. This is our projection of the trend, not a reported figure.

How this is made: Vi.ki records Steam's own count of people playing every hour (Steam's public player count) and holds SteamDB's measured chart before that. The hour and weekday patterns compare each hour with its own day, so a rising or falling month does not tilt them. Steam only: console and other stores are not counted. Updated every hour; this page may be up to a day behind.

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Frequently asked questions

When do most people play Diablo 4?

On Nov 7, 2026, Vi.ki's reading of the last 25 days of Steam's hourly counts put the busiest hour at 15:00 UTC and the quietest at 07:00 UTC. The analysis above recomputes this every hour.

What is the busiest day of the week for Diablo 4?

On Nov 7, 2026, over the previous eight weeks, Sunday had the highest peaks against the week around it and Thursday the lowest, by Vi.ki's reading of Steam's counts.

What is Diablo 4's all-time peak on Steam?

64,518 people at once, per SteamDB's chart. Players on consoles and other stores are not in Steam's count.

Is this the number of people playing Diablo 4 everywhere?

No. Steam counts only people playing through Steam; consoles and other PC stores publish no hourly figure, so no one can give an all-platform count by the hour.