We can picture it now: You’ve come into this news story all guns blazing, thinking you’ve cracked it. Steam is one of the biggest and most consistent metrics for measuring player numbers, but the platform’s biggest peak game of 2025 shocked us a bit.
What another incredible year for gaming releases. Hades 2 proves once again that it’s the king (Queen, in this case) of roguelikes, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a game for the ages, and the list honestly goes on. But everyone is always amped up by a game’s first week of release and what its peak player count is—using it as a barometer for success.
Pretty much every major release of 2025 has happened now, and Steam’s highest-peak game might raise an eyebrow or two.
Monster Hunter Wilds Has The Highest Steam Peak Of Any New 2025 Game
Capcom takes the crown for a new game with the highest Steam peak in 2025! Monster Hunter Wilds continued its mainstream success spectacularly in 2025. The action game reached an all-time peak of 1,384,608, according to SteamDB.
To put this into context, this is the fifth-highest peak in Steam history!
Another incredible fact is that one of the games you’d think might have been the peak game barely managed half of Wilds’ total—Battlefield 6. The return of EA’s shooter has blown everyone away, and we’d argue it’s taken the crown as the shooter of 2025: We can hear angry ARC Raiders fans sharpening tools in the background.
Battlefield 6’s highest Steam peak is 747,440, and other big games in 2025 haven’t fared too badly either: Hollow Knight: Silksong hit 587,150, ARC Raiders stole 481,966 of you at once, and even indie hit Schedule 1 cooked up an impressive 459,075 players.
Nothing even got close to 1 million, but Monster Hunter Wilds shrugged off the challenge in style. It is also still 2025’s best-selling game, which probably helps.
What did you think the answer was going to be? Have any of these figures caught you off guard? Let us know what you think of this fact. Plus, head to the Insider Gaming Discord Server and tell us what you think will be the most played game of 2026.
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