What is ranking on Steam today: August 25, 2026
Bongo Cat is the mover on Steam Most Played for August 25, 2026, climbing from #4 on August 24 to #3 past Palworld. Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 still hold #1 and #2. The other seven titles sit in the same order as yesterday. get_growth on steam for Bongo Cat shows +4.38% over 30 days (normalized value 100 vs 95.8 on June 1), with peak volume 187,676 vs 180,178.
Top trending games on Steam: August 25
Counter-Strike 2
Valve's competitive shooter holds #1. get_growth on steam for the 30-day window returned -6.95% (normalized 76.3 on July 1 vs 82.0 on June 1) and peak volume 1,420,896 vs 1,573,727. The rank is unchanged from August 24. No new operation was dated August 25.
Dota 2
The MOBA holds #2. get_growth shows +19.21% over 30 days on the normalized average (75.1 vs 63.0) even as peak volume slipped 0.3% (860,019 vs 862,639). Rank is unchanged from August 24.
Bongo Cat
The free-to-play desktop overlay from Irox Games, released March 5, 2025, rises from #4 to #3. SteamPulse recorded 164,081 players on August 19 and a tracked peak near 193,859, with 97% of 108,446 reviews positive. GameTrends listed 162,305 players on August 24. It is an idle cat overlay, not a match-based shooter.
Palworld
Pocketpair's creature game falls from #3 to #4. get_growth on steam showed +3,340% over 30 days off a June 1 baseline of 1.0, with peak volume 956,613 vs 51,116. That percent is a low-baseline artifact, not a same-week launch. Rank is the story today, not the 3,340 figure.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Holds #5, same as August 24. No widely reported August 25 patch was required to explain the hold.
FiveM
The GTA V multiplayer framework holds #6. Rank is unchanged.
How to Fish
Holds #7. Rank is unchanged from August 24.
Marvel Rivals
Holds #8. Rank is unchanged.
Apex Legends™
Holds #9. Rank is unchanged.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Holds #10. Rank is unchanged.
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What changed on Steam since yesterday
New in the top 10 versus August 24: none. Drop-offs: none. The only rank change is Bongo Cat from #4 to #3 and Palworld from #3 to #4, a one-slot swap. CS2, Dota 2, PUBG, FiveM, How to Fish, Marvel Rivals, Apex Legends, and Siege hold their August 24 positions. No 5-rank mover.
What today's Steam games reveal
The concurrent-player board is a fixture list with one overlay climbing. CS2 at #1 and Dota 2 at #2 are the daily defaults. Bongo Cat at #3 is the idle app that keeps beating billed games on concurrent users, with 97% positive reviews and a free-to-play flag.
Palworld at #4 is still a top-five title after the swap. The bottom six did not move. For Steam charts, see the Steam trends page.
Track these trends in real time with Trends MCP
This ranked list is the August 25, 2026 get_top_trends snapshot for type Steam Most Played with limit 10. Studio analysts who watch concurrent ranks can call the same feed as the board refreshes. The generating call:
{
"type": "Steam Most Played",
"limit": 10
}
See the Steam Most Played API page for source notes.