Battlefield 6 is proving a remarkable milestone for the venerable military shooter series. It’s not just a great game—as PC Gamer staff writer Morgan Park put it in last week’s review-in-progress, “a bullseye where it matters most”—it’s also very popular, as evidenced by its recent eye-watering concurrent player count of over 747,000.
That number comes from SteamDB, which shows Battlefield 6 jockeying with Dota 2 for second most-played game on Steam right now behind the platform’s perennial #1, Counter-Strike 2. The number has been left to simmer for a bit as I write this on a Sunday morning, but sits proudly at around 600,000 active players regardless.
With a bit more oomph as the game builds up steam, it might just overtake Baldur’s Gate 3’s historical peak of 875,000 simultaneous players, which would put it very close to the all-time top ten. Still, it’s overtaken the likes of Marvel Rivals, Apex Legends, and notably, any Call of Duty game on the platform, so even if it plateaus from here it is a seismic release.
