Steam is the biggest platform for online games. While there are competitors, one just cannot withstand the might of Steam platform and the players associated to it. And it brings great pleasure to know as to how many players are linked with the platform, playing their favorite games.

Most recently an API allowed users to get precise data related to Steam games. While data regarding the number of hours played and other stats can be found over the internet, the recent leak lets you know the exact number of users who have bought a particular game. Check out the table for the top 20 games owned by Steam users. And Number 1 is not what you would have expected.

S.No Title Player Estimate Steam ID 20 War Thunder 9536732 236390 19 Portal 9971481 400 18 Rocket League 10110342 252950 17 Robocraft 10145493 301520 16 Borderlands 2 11218936 49520 15 Grand Theft Auto V 12604123 271590 14 Sid Meier's Civilization V 12701498 8930 13 Portal 2 13062700 620 12 Terraria 13132545 105600 11 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 13235488 72850 10 Paladins 14371946 444090 9 Counter-Strike: Source 15001876 240 8 Warframe 16332217 230410 7 Garry's Mod 18576379 4000 6 PAYDAY 2 18643807 218620 5 Left 4 Dead 2 23143723 550 4 Unturned 27381399 304930 3 PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 36604134 578080 2 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 46305966 730 1 Team Fortress 2 50191347 440

Team Fortress is leading the charts

As surprising as it may seem, Team Fortress still lands the top spot for the most owned game on Steam. CS:GO follows up with a second place with a four million user deficit.

Despite being more than 10 years old, Team Fortress 2 remains the clear winner amongst all. This is also a huge news considering up and coming games have brought new gaming genre to the table. However the cult following of Team Fortress 2 remains the same and the game is still religiously followed and played all around the globe.

As of now, TF2 continues to rank among the top 10 most played games on Steam, surpassing paid games such as Rust, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Rocket League, Arma 3 and most importantly Ark: Survival Evolved.

CS:GO still remains among the most owned and played games for Steam users and despite the early spike of the release of PUBG, the game has a higher playtime and number of users than PUBG.

The list does not stop here and the complete Excel file has stats for 13281 games according to the news on the source website. Do note that it has 10,000 games less out of the total 23,000 games. This is because the numbers have been derived based on the in-game achievements acquired by players. That is why those games that don’t have any in-game achievements are not included in the list. The biggest example of this is Dota 2 that has somewhat equal to CS:GO’s player base but won’t be found in the list.

If your favorite game is not among the top 20 then you might want to check the complete file for the stats.