Steam Most Played vs YouTube Trending live ranks

A Steam Most Played vs YouTube Trending comparison on Trends MCP is two get_top_trends calls: type Steam Most Played and type YouTube Trending. From the August 25, 2026 pull, both boards stamped 2026-08-25T14:01:32 UTC. Steam returned 25 rows at limit 50, then count 0 at offset 25. YouTube returned 50 rows at limit 50, ranks 51 through 150 on the next two pages, then 49 rows at offset 150 ending at rank 199. Steam rank 1 was Counter-Strike 2. YouTube rank 1 was a Taylor Swift Grammy Museum performance. How to Fish sat at Steam rank 4 and YouTube ranks 6, 54, and 56. steam growth for How to Fish returned no_data. youtube for How to Fish sat at 55.0 on 2026-08-22, up 30.95% over 7 days. Free tier access is 100 requests per month.

What Steam Most Played vs YouTube Trending data shows right now

From the Trends MCP scan of August 25, 2026, Steam Most Played and YouTube Trending both stamped 2026-08-25T14:01:32 UTC, with Steam closed at 25 rows and YouTube filling 199, so a default limit 25 join misses every YouTube rank after 25 and every Steam title that only matches a later video.

Steam ranks 13 through 25 included The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at 13, Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at 14, Slay the Spire 2 at 15, Stardew Valley at 16, War Thunder at 17, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced at 18, EA SPORTS FC 26 at 19, Project Zomboid at 20, Terraria at 21, Warframe at 22, Spacewar at 23, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT at 24, and HELLDIVERS 2 at 25. YouTube ranks 13 through 25 included NCT 127 Blingy, a second Lanterns promo, Hermitcraft 11, a Castlevania Belmont trailer, and a Grand Tour trailer.

Same-stamp string joins (Steam 25 versus YouTube 199):

Growth follow-ups on the same pull day used source steam (monthly points, recent_date 2026-07-01) plus youtube and google search (weekly points, recent_date 2026-08-22, 261 points):

How to Fish is the split signal. Steam rank 4 and three YouTube ranks sit next to a steam series that is still missing. For the Steam board alone, see the Steam Most Played API.

Exact API calls for both live boards

Two get_top_trends calls cover the snapshot: type Steam Most Played for concurrent-player ranks and type YouTube Trending for video titles, each counting as one request against the monthly quota on the August 25, 2026 pull, with YouTube needing limit 50 plus offset 50, 100, and 150 because default 25 hides ranks 26 through 199.

{
  "mode": "get_top_trends",
  "type": "Steam Most Played",
  "limit": 50
}

{
  "mode": "get_top_trends",
  "type": "YouTube Trending",
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 50
}

{
  "mode": "get_growth",
  "source": "steam",
  "keyword": "Counter-Strike 2",
  "percent_growth": ["30D", "3M", "12M"]
}

Join on game tokens, not full video titles. "How to Fish" on Steam rank 4 and the How to Fish livestream at YouTube rank 6 are a join. "Huge GTA 6 Build Leak Threat Was Fake" at YouTube rank 36 is not a Steam row; Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at Steam rank 14 is the live-player follow-up. Offset details for feeds that page past 25 live on get_top_trends offset and limit.

How to Fish ranks on Steam without a steam series

How to Fish can sit at Steam rank 4 and occupy three YouTube Trending rows while source steam still returns no_data, so the live board and the monthly player series are separate calls rather than one object on the August 25, 2026 stamp.

youtube for keyword How to Fish sat at 55.0 on 2026-08-22, up 30.95% over 7 days from 42.0, up 22.22% over 30 days from 45.0, and up 37.5% over 12 months from 40.0 (261 weekly points). google search sat at 49.0, up 11.36% over 7 days from 44.0, down 5.77% over 30 days from 52.0, and up 8.89% over 12 months from 45.0. google news sat at 60.0, up 122.22% over 7 days from 27.0, with a low-quality warning that the series is over 90% zeros; the 30-day window printed a dummy percent off a 0.0 baseline, so quote 60.0. TBH: Task Bar Hero at Steam rank 11 and Slay the Spire 2 at rank 15 returned the same steam no_data response.

YouTube default limit 25 would have kept the rank 6 livestream and dropped the How to Fish videos at ranks 54 and 56. Three rows on one title is a clip cycle, not three games. For the video board alone, see the YouTube Trending API.

GTA V players versus GTA 6 leak videos

Grand Theft Auto V still holds two Steam Most Played rows while YouTube Trending is filled with GTA 6 leak videos, so franchise heat on the clip board is not the same as concurrent players on the live PC client.

Steam listed Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at rank 14 and Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced at rank 18. YouTube listed leak and reaction titles at ranks 36, 64, 95, 96, 98, 120, 159, and 196 inside the 199-row board. youtube for keyword GTA 6 sat at 14.0 on 2026-08-22, up 250.0% over 7 days from 4.0, up 366.67% over 30 days from 3.0, and up 600.0% over 12 months from 2.0. google search sat at 38.0, up 171.43% over 7 days from 14.0, up 216.67% over 30 days from 12.0, and up 533.33% over 12 months from 6.0. FiveM at Steam rank 8 is a GTA V multiplayer client; it is a related token, not a string equals on "GTA 6".

Default YouTube limit 25 would have reported the leak story as absent. Rank 36 is already past that window. Steam never listed GTA 6 as a Most Played title in this 25-row board.

Steam-only titles the YouTube board never lists

Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, Palworld, and Bongo Cat held Steam ranks 1, 2, 3, 7, and 6 with no title match in YouTube Trending 199, which is enough to keep a player-count leader off a clip leaderboard on the same timestamp.

Counter-Strike 2 steam sat at 76.3 with peak volume 1,420,896 on 2026-07-01, down 6.95% on the index and 9.71% on volume versus 82.0 / 1,573,727 on 2026-06-01. Dota 2 sat at 75.1 / 860,019, up 19.21% on the index and down 0.3% on volume versus 63.0 / 862,639. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS sat at 19.8 / 792,142, up 3.66% on the index and down 3.46% on volume versus 19.1 / 820,499. Bongo Cat sat at 100.0 / 187,676, up 4.38% on the index and 4.16% on volume versus 95.8 / 180,178. Index percent and volume percent can disagree; quote both.

Palworld is the lag case. steam recent_date 2026-07-01 printed 34.4 / 956,613 versus 1.0 / 51,116 on 2026-06-01. Quote 956,613, not the 3,340% index jump off a 1.0 baseline. youtube sat at 14.0 on 2026-08-22, down 22.22% over 7 days from 18.0 and down 60.0% over 30 days from 35.0. google search sat at 21.0, down 30.0% over 7 days from 30.0 and down 66.13% over 30 days from 62.0. A July player spike can already be cooling on weekly search by late August. Cross-check Steam trends when the monthly series and the live rank disagree.

Limits of a game-name join

Exact title equals under-count related rows, steam history is monthly and can miss new titles, and YouTube ranks are video titles, so How to Fish can trend in clips while steam is no_data, and GTA 6 can trend on YouTube while Steam still ranks Grand Theft Auto V.

Apex Legends sat at Steam rank 5 with steam 17.1 / 214,120 on 2026-07-01, down 17.39% on the index and 15.74% on volume versus 20.7 / 254,117. No Apex video sat in YouTube 199. Project Zomboid steam sat at 71.2 / 86,205, up 20.88% on the index and 123.47% on volume versus 58.9 / 38,576; the matching YouTube row was rank 132, invisible at limit 25. HELLDIVERS 2 steam sat at 1.9 / 43,782, up 46.15% on the index and down 4.44% on volume versus 1.3 / 45,817, with the matching YouTube row at 177.

Rust steam sat at 73.0 / 194,484, up 1.11% on the index and down 11.26% on volume versus 72.2 / 219,164. The YouTube match at rank 126 is a Vanilla Rust survival video, not the programming language. Do not pass keyword Rust to google search without a game qualifier. Steam 7-day presets often collapse because the series is monthly; prefer 30D, 3M, and 12M. Live Steam labels can include trademark symbols; pass the name the feed returns when retrying growth, then strip marks in prose.