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Apex Legends™ cover art

Apex Legends™

Respawn · Electronic Arts · 2020-11-04

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ActionAdventureFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Battle Royale · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 09, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 04, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 29, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Aug 05, 2025 (Nintendo Switch 2), Feb 04, 2019 (PlayStation 4), Mar 29, 2022 (PlayStation 5)

Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.

Apex Legends™ is a 2020 Action, Adventure and Free To Play game priced at free-to-play, with an owner estimate of 100,000,000 .. 200,000,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (68% of 1063132 reviews).

93,524
playing now
68%
positive of 1.1M reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000,000–200,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
22,168
twitch viewers (latest)
78.3
viewers/channel (concentration)
88/100
critic score (11 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (659 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (1.2k downloads)
4.07★
PlayStation Store rating (851,596 ratings)
293h
to beat · rushed 35h · completionist 1068h
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

93,524 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Apex Legends is a 2019 battle royale-hero shooter video game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts, set in the same science fiction universe as Respawn's Titanfall series. It is offered free-to-play and is continuously updated under the games as a service model; the game was originally released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in February 2019 and was followed by versions for Nintendo Switch in 2021 and both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2022, and Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025. All versions support cross-platform multiplayer. A mobile version designed for touchscreens was briefly available until its discontinuation in 2023.

Trailer

Apex Legends™ trailer thumbnail

Apex Legends - Official Cinematic Launch Trailer

≈300,661 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 93,524 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 54,963 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6,870/week).
  • · Review velocity up 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,535 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-16

Tier history: healthy→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→healthy (Sep 15)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
82k82k20202026Week of 2020-11-01: 75,745 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4,628 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 18,016 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1,698 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 16,828 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1,992 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 24,110 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3,104 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 24,107 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3,552 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 19,711 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2,609 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 30,573 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3,983 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 16,811 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2,834 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 15,870 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4,764 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 22,639 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4,386 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 16,013 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 6,724 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 11,708 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4,882 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 20,358 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2,723 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 11,852 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2,177 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 13,395 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2,492 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 21,441 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3,489 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 19,988 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3,526 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 12,781 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2,384 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 15,557 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3,271 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 12,807 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3,293 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10,496 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2,969 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 14,583 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3,618 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 10,933 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2,801 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 7,513 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2,491 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 12,384 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3,726 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 14,366 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7,167 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 16,003 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8,491 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 17,429 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7,340 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 15,609 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6,332 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 11,376 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5,647 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11,752 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7,641 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11,276 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6,448 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 10,801 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4,760 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 13,048 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 8,535 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 9,843 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5,625 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 10,702 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5,200 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 20,911 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7,021 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 7,352 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4,323 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8,109 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5,399 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 9,205 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5,026 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8,365 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4,886 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6,037 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5,210 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6,913 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4,973 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5,662 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4,977 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5,899 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 82,120 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5,319 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12,670 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3,839 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6,443 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2,995 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4,101 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5,675 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7,695 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3,559 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3,028 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3,635 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4,656 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3,439 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3,183 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3,533 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2,662 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3,042 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2,172 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3,848 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2,732 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3,815 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2,473 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3,869 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2,471 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3,849 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2,657 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2,681 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1,832 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2,858 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,543 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7,251 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2,141 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3,553 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,920 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4,056 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2,136 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3,787 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1,852 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5,115 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2,480 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4,753 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2,251 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5,455 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2,499 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4,351 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2,200 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4,116 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,074 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5,444 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2,634 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 4,024 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,928 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1,472 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 859 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

273k55k2026-09-14 18:00 — 90,346 players2026-09-15 18:00 — 84,059 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 91,715 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 97,690 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 172,263 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 141,113 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 105,931 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 101,133 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 112,520 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 89,282 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 131,172 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 155,443 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 165,882 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 93,046 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 88,892 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 89,137 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 113,048 players2026-10-02 08:00 — 108,452 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 135,843 players2026-10-04 08:00 — 144,617 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 103,056 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 103,355 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 108,141 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 75,522 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 83,924 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 109,067 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 159,425 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 94,850 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 75,870 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 79,598 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 93,524 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
257k64kNov 2020Aug 2026Nov 2020 — avg 74,957 · peak 117,193Jan 2021 — avg 71,767 · peak 129,928Mar 2021 — avg 126,121 · peak 228,439May 2021 — avg 164,238 · peak 330,879Jul 2021 — avg 131,151 · peak 262,129Sep 2021 — avg 139,648 · peak 273,617Nov 2021 — avg 136,246 · peak 318,330Jan 2022 — avg 145,583 · peak 264,287Mar 2022 — avg 183,597 · peak 353,623May 2022 — avg 195,552 · peak 411,183Jul 2022 — avg 183,161 · peak 347,314Sep 2022 — avg 221,827 · peak 497,242Nov 2022 — avg 172,345 · peak 403,157Jan 2023 — avg 197,969 · peak 413,670Mar 2023 — avg 255,792 · peak 603,290May 2023 — avg 227,947 · peak 584,294Jul 2023 — avg 166,199 · peak 349,762Sep 2023 — avg 186,494 · peak 452,991Nov 2023 — avg 167,296 · peak 438,349Jan 2024 — avg 146,164 · peak 344,621Mar 2024 — avg 189,219 · peak 463,933May 2024 — avg 167,424 · peak 425,742Jul 2024 — avg 116,747 · peak 265,369Sep 2024 — avg 107,227 · peak 249,334Nov 2024 — avg 91,362 · peak 225,795Jan 2025 — avg 69,580 · peak 153,693Mar 2025 — avg 90,276 · peak 185,193May 2025 — avg 134,647 · peak 262,219Jul 2025 — avg 90,567 · peak 209,736Sep 2025 — avg 83,773 · peak 199,203Nov 2025 — avg 89,983 · peak 229,804Jan 2026 — avg 86,433 · peak 206,450Mar 2026 — avg 111,603 · peak 287,202May 2026 — avg 128,964 · peak 324,964Jul 2026 — avg 97,485 · peak 214,120Aug 2026 — avg 127,651 · peak 291,356
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#5#72026-09-142026-10-142026-09-14 — #62026-09-15 — #62026-09-16 — #62026-09-17 — #62026-09-18 — #62026-09-19 — #62026-09-20 — #62026-09-21 — #62026-09-22 — #62026-09-23 — #62026-09-24 — #62026-09-25 — #62026-09-26 — #62026-09-27 — #62026-09-28 — #62026-09-29 — #62026-09-30 — #62026-10-01 — #52026-10-02 — #52026-10-03 — #52026-10-04 — #52026-10-05 — #52026-10-06 — #52026-10-07 — #62026-10-08 — #72026-10-09 — #72026-10-10 — #72026-10-11 — #72026-10-12 — #72026-10-13 — #72026-10-14 — #7
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
2302302026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 82 new positive2026-09-15: 33 new negative2026-09-16: 230 new positive2026-09-16: 51 new negative2026-09-17: 168 new positive2026-09-17: 38 new negative2026-09-18: 91 new positive2026-09-18: 18 new negative2026-09-19: 118 new positive2026-09-19: 45 new negative2026-09-20: 130 new positive2026-09-20: 41 new negative2026-09-21: 110 new positive2026-09-21: 23 new negative2026-09-22: 161 new positive2026-09-22: 55 new negative2026-09-23: 95 new positive2026-09-23: 39 new negative2026-09-24: 79 new positive2026-09-24: 24 new negative2026-09-25: 84 new positive2026-09-25: 29 new negative2026-09-26: 107 new positive2026-09-26: 33 new negative2026-09-27: 86 new positive2026-09-27: 39 new negative2026-09-28: 89 new positive2026-09-28: 18 new negative2026-09-29: 55 new positive2026-09-29: 8 new negative2026-09-30: 156 new positive2026-09-30: 78 new negative2026-10-01: 132 new positive2026-10-01: 66 new negative2026-10-02: 81 new positive2026-10-02: 60 new negative2026-10-03: 136 new positive2026-10-03: 49 new negative2026-10-04: 118 new positive2026-10-04: 30 new negative2026-10-05: 112 new positive2026-10-05: 61 new negative2026-10-06: 208 new positive2026-10-06: 84 new negative2026-10-07: 98 new positive2026-10-07: 39 new negative2026-10-08: 113 new positive2026-10-08: 39 new negative2026-10-09: 94 new positive2026-10-09: 45 new negative2026-10-10: 78 new positive2026-10-10: 61 new negative2026-10-11: 87 new positive2026-10-11: 47 new negative2026-10-12: 63 new positive2026-10-12: 43 new negative2026-10-13: 50 new positive2026-10-13: 43 new negative2026-10-14: 86 new positive2026-10-14: 24 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

6573892026-05-28 — 657 pageviews2026-06-01 — 532 pageviews2026-06-05 — 548 pageviews2026-06-09 — 465 pageviews2026-06-13 — 397 pageviews2026-06-17 — 535 pageviews2026-06-21 — 531 pageviews2026-06-25 — 466 pageviews2026-06-29 — 450 pageviews2026-07-03 — 403 pageviews2026-07-07 — 519 pageviews2026-07-11 — 555 pageviews2026-07-15 — 461 pageviews2026-07-19 — 416 pageviews2026-07-23 — 456 pageviews2026-07-27 — 421 pageviews2026-07-31 — 472 pageviews2026-08-04 — 478 pageviews2026-08-08 — 411 pageviews2026-08-12 — 453 pageviews2026-08-16 — 440 pageviews2026-08-20 — 520 pageviews2026-08-24 — 508 pageviews2026-08-28 — 444 pageviews2026-09-01 — 464 pageviews2026-09-05 — 478 pageviews2026-09-09 — 491 pageviews2026-09-13 — 397 pageviews2026-09-17 — 397 pageviews2026-09-21 — 500 pageviews2026-09-25 — 448 pageviews2026-09-29 — 425 pageviews2026-10-03 — 443 pageviews2026-10-06 — 389 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

303k2.1k2026-09-30 18:12 — 47,262 viewers2026-10-01 03:12 — 3,991 viewers2026-10-01 12:12 — 178,954 viewers2026-10-01 21:12 — 9,527 viewers2026-10-02 07:12 — 38,339 viewers2026-10-02 16:12 — 138,386 viewers2026-10-03 01:12 — 6,699 viewers2026-10-03 10:34 — 74,058 viewers2026-10-03 19:34 — 17,818 viewers2026-10-04 06:12 — 36,918 viewers2026-10-04 15:12 — 17,729 viewers2026-10-05 02:34 — 10,245 viewers2026-10-05 11:34 — 9,706 viewers2026-10-05 20:34 — 13,373 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 13,360 viewers2026-10-06 18:34 — 25,037 viewers2026-10-07 07:12 — 2,204 viewers2026-10-07 16:12 — 12,759 viewers2026-10-08 01:12 — 6,543 viewers2026-10-08 11:12 — 5,312 viewers2026-10-08 20:12 — 7,632 viewers2026-10-09 08:12 — 3,034 viewers2026-10-09 17:12 — 19,274 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 10,814 viewers2026-10-10 13:34 — 14,545 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 8,880 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 11,473 viewers2026-10-11 23:34 — 12,178 viewers2026-10-12 10:34 — 12,113 viewers2026-10-12 19:34 — 21,212 viewers2026-10-13 05:34 — 7,163 viewers2026-10-13 14:34 — 26,907 viewers2026-10-13 23:34 — 12,110 viewers2026-10-14 11:12 — 5,595 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 22,168 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
46.8%
earned "Jumpmaster"
29%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsIn-App PurchasesChat Speech-to-text

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese…

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSPvPLootCo-opActionSci-fiShooterSurvivalTacticalTeam-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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