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Team Fortress 2

Valve · 2007-10-10

Steam

ActionFree To Play

Franchise: Team Fortress · Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Feb 14, 2013 (Linux), Oct 19, 2007 (Xbox 360), Jun 10, 2010 (Mac), Dec 11, 2007 (PlayStation 3), Oct 10, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play Action and Free To Play game released in 2007, with an estimated 50,000,000 .. 100,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 1246074 reviews).

79,763
playing now
91%
positive of 1.3M reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000,000–100,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
131
twitch viewers (latest)
4.4
viewers/channel (concentration)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
83/100
IGDB user rating (894 ratings)
76
Nexus mods (40k downloads)
170h
to beat · rushed 55h · completionist 1205h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

79,763 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Team Fortress 2 is a 2007 multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to the 1996 Team Fortress mod for Quake and the 1999 game Team Fortress Classic. It was released in October 2007 as part of The Orange Box for Windows and the Xbox 360, and was ported to the PlayStation 3 in December 2007. It was released as a standalone game for Windows in April 2008, and updated to support macOS in June 2010 and Linux in February 2013. It was made free-to-play in June 2011, and is distributed online through Valve's digital retailer, Steam.

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Health check

Thriving
  • · 79,763 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 56,711 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7,089/week).
  • · Review velocity down 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-17

Tier history: healthy→thriving (Sep 17), thriving→healthy (Sep 16), healthy→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→healthy (Sep 16)

All-time low: $19.99 at Steam (2014-12-02)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
46k46k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 4,208 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 421 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 3,587 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 358 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3,698 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3,950 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 354 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3,936 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 350 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3,628 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 316 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2,989 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 275 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 3,103 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 267 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 9,388 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 462 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 4,076 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 366 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3,617 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 338 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2,985 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 307 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2,672 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 225 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2,673 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 240 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2,740 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 232 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 13,888 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1,010 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 14,206 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 868 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2,759 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 282 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2,260 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 207 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 5,267 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 18,939 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 584 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 12,301 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 582 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 9,421 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 525 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 7,584 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 462 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 9,813 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 535 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 12,440 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 754 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 11,792 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 709 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 10,259 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 813 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 10,372 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 725 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 11,278 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 796 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 10,150 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 671 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 10,629 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 604 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 12,624 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 651 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 11,450 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 669 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 11,503 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 812 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 9,190 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 782 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 9,415 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 794 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 8,282 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 884 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 8,301 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1,056 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 8,417 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 903 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 9,250 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 907 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 8,752 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 859 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 7,696 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 737 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 8,316 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 667 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10,905 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 644 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8,010 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 597 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7,918 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 802 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6,790 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 722 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 7,004 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 698 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 6,124 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 668 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 6,710 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 830 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 7,575 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 822 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8,570 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 660 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 8,254 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 618 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 7,784 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 549 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 7,551 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 497 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 16,574 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 486 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 7,780 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 467 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 7,522 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 587 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6,198 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 563 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6,928 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 548 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 7,544 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 530 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7,385 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 530 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 7,483 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 492 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 11,016 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 815 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 12,289 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 900 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 9,509 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 611 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9,070 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 558 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 12,149 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 618 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 7,990 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 546 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 7,947 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 782 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7,377 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 615 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6,698 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 624 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 5,791 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 607 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5,866 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,774 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6,433 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 46,096 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 9,153 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,199 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7,490 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 498 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5,644 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 380 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5,766 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 352 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8,964 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 410 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 9,691 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 410 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 7,386 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 453 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7,205 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 485 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7,296 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 428 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5,498 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 325 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8,613 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 351 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7,600 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 412 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7,818 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 450 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7,506 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 427 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 6,783 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 344 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6,763 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 442 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13,910 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 407 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7,154 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 380 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6,917 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 431 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6,768 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 369 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7,273 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 423 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7,092 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 407 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6,688 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 499 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7,102 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 421 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7,050 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 492 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6,314 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 518 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 4,893 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 402 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 2,000 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 142 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

88k45k2026-09-14 18:00 — 65,261 players2026-09-15 18:00 — 66,764 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 47,247 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 58,287 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 58,496 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 57,776 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 53,675 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 56,006 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 48,838 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 45,820 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 59,541 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 59,053 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 59,349 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 52,018 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 46,218 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 44,796 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 48,870 players2026-10-02 08:00 — 67,991 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 70,478 players2026-10-04 08:00 — 68,427 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 56,252 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 62,462 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 52,914 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 59,206 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 68,733 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 73,804 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 66,164 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 59,435 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 62,167 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 60,846 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 79,763 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
119k37kJul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 45,567 · peak 62,321Dec 2012 — avg 43,624 · peak 73,695May 2013 — avg 44,633 · peak 75,126Oct 2013 — avg 42,808 · peak 74,370Mar 2014 — avg 49,146 · peak 82,998Aug 2014 — avg 59,229 · peak 83,414Jan 2015 — avg 58,550 · peak 94,272Jun 2015 — avg 56,345 · peak 78,971Nov 2015 — avg 52,145 · peak 91,588Apr 2016 — avg 51,435 · peak 81,206Sep 2016 — avg 48,541 · peak 74,797Feb 2017 — avg 51,787 · peak 77,381Jul 2017 — avg 51,861 · peak 66,951Dec 2017 — avg 51,816 · peak 71,122May 2018 — avg 38,847 · peak 56,049Oct 2018 — avg 48,766 · peak 97,329Mar 2019 — avg 45,940 · peak 63,379Aug 2019 — avg 45,545 · peak 64,518Jan 2020 — avg 59,598 · peak 76,738Jun 2020 — avg 65,170 · peak 79,946Nov 2020 — avg 70,305 · peak 101,610Apr 2021 — avg 88,187 · peak 118,950Sep 2021 — avg 81,854 · peak 100,830Feb 2022 — avg 70,353 · peak 93,238Jul 2022 — avg 109,642 · peak 139,034Dec 2022 — avg 99,266 · peak 147,868May 2023 — avg 79,956 · peak 100,266Oct 2023 — avg 76,833 · peak 180,283Mar 2024 — avg 59,993 · peak 77,754Aug 2024 — avg 63,648 · peak 97,050Jan 2025 — avg 47,976 · peak 80,723Jun 2025 — avg 44,741 · peak 60,738Nov 2025 — avg 45,418 · peak 77,876Apr 2026 — avg 50,683 · peak 69,163Aug 2026 — avg 50,286 · peak 63,267
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#18#352026-09-142026-10-142026-09-14 — #332026-09-15 — #322026-09-16 — #322026-09-17 — #322026-09-18 — #312026-09-19 — #312026-09-20 — #312026-09-21 — #312026-09-22 — #312026-09-23 — #312026-09-24 — #312026-09-25 — #312026-09-26 — #282026-09-27 — #282026-09-28 — #332026-09-29 — #182026-09-30 — #182026-10-01 — #202026-10-02 — #202026-10-03 — #292026-10-04 — #292026-10-05 — #302026-10-06 — #322026-10-07 — #322026-10-08 — #342026-10-09 — #352026-10-10 — #312026-10-11 — #312026-10-12 — #332026-10-13 — #282026-10-14 — #28
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
2572572026-09-162026-10-142026-09-16: 95 new positive2026-09-17: 71 new positive2026-09-17: 5 new negative2026-09-19: 113 new positive2026-09-19: 24 new negative2026-09-21: 153 new positive2026-09-21: 8 new negative2026-09-25: 94 new positive2026-09-25: 10 new negative2026-09-26: 136 new positive2026-09-26: 8 new negative2026-09-27: 140 new positive2026-09-27: 10 new negative2026-09-30: 69 new positive2026-09-30: 3 new negative2026-10-01: 78 new positive2026-10-01: 2 new negative2026-10-04: 182 new positive2026-10-04: 8 new negative2026-10-05: 257 new positive2026-10-05: 5 new negative2026-10-06: 110 new positive2026-10-06: 3 new negative2026-10-07: 45 new positive2026-10-07: 3 new negative2026-10-08: 108 new positive2026-10-12: 129 new positive2026-10-12: 10 new negative2026-10-13: 122 new positive2026-10-13: 9 new negative2026-10-14: 93 new positive2026-10-14: 9 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$0.002015-01-012018-11-072015-01-01 — best price $0.002015-01-02 — best price $19.992015-01-03 — best price $0.002015-06-11 — best price $0.002015-06-22 — best price $19.992015-06-23 — best price $0.002018-05-31 — best price $19.992018-11-07 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

9886042026-05-29 — 947 pageviews2026-06-02 — 758 pageviews2026-06-06 — 672 pageviews2026-06-10 — 714 pageviews2026-06-14 — 631 pageviews2026-06-18 — 708 pageviews2026-06-22 — 909 pageviews2026-06-26 — 660 pageviews2026-06-30 — 766 pageviews2026-07-04 — 752 pageviews2026-07-08 — 775 pageviews2026-07-12 — 658 pageviews2026-07-16 — 664 pageviews2026-07-20 — 670 pageviews2026-07-24 — 739 pageviews2026-07-28 — 719 pageviews2026-08-01 — 684 pageviews2026-08-05 — 729 pageviews2026-08-09 — 768 pageviews2026-08-13 — 727 pageviews2026-08-17 — 701 pageviews2026-08-21 — 803 pageviews2026-08-25 — 896 pageviews2026-08-29 — 693 pageviews2026-09-02 — 839 pageviews2026-09-06 — 786 pageviews2026-09-10 — 750 pageviews2026-09-14 — 699 pageviews2026-09-18 — 707 pageviews2026-09-22 — 741 pageviews2026-09-26 — 651 pageviews2026-09-30 — 680 pageviews2026-10-04 — 727 pageviews2026-10-07 — 748 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

673602026-09-30 18:34 — 190 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 223 viewers2026-10-01 12:34 — 555 viewers2026-10-01 22:34 — 317 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 546 viewers2026-10-02 16:34 — 264 viewers2026-10-03 01:34 — 430 viewers2026-10-03 10:34 — 109 viewers2026-10-03 19:34 — 339 viewers2026-10-04 04:34 — 281 viewers2026-10-04 13:34 — 294 viewers2026-10-04 22:34 — 522 viewers2026-10-05 07:34 — 135 viewers2026-10-05 16:34 — 170 viewers2026-10-06 01:35 — 406 viewers2026-10-06 10:34 — 72 viewers2026-10-06 19:34 — 303 viewers2026-10-07 04:34 — 185 viewers2026-10-07 13:34 — 168 viewers2026-10-07 22:34 — 306 viewers2026-10-08 07:34 — 99 viewers2026-10-08 16:34 — 167 viewers2026-10-09 01:34 — 253 viewers2026-10-09 10:34 — 81 viewers2026-10-09 19:34 — 234 viewers2026-10-10 04:34 — 143 viewers2026-10-10 13:34 — 179 viewers2026-10-10 22:34 — 385 viewers2026-10-11 07:34 — 93 viewers2026-10-11 16:34 — 296 viewers2026-10-12 01:34 — 283 viewers2026-10-12 10:34 — 127 viewers2026-10-12 19:34 — 291 viewers2026-10-13 04:34 — 217 viewers2026-10-13 13:34 — 183 viewers2026-10-13 22:34 — 539 viewers2026-10-14 07:34 — 307 viewers2026-10-14 16:34 — 149 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 131 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
49.9%
earned "Race for the Pennant"
20%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxMulti-playerCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam WorkshopIn-App PurchasesCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume Controls1 DLC

26 supported languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-05-04 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)347,1483%520

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

FPSCo-opFunnyActionShooterTradingCartoonyTeam-BasedClass-BasedCompetitive

Census log

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

Recent updates

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