Top trending games on Steam: August 26, 2026

Counter-Strike 2 still leads Steam Most Played on August 26, 2026, at #1. get_growth on steam showed a 30-day interest reading of 76.3 versus 82.0 (-6.95%) and volume of about 1,420,896 versus 1,573,727 (-9.71%). Dota 2 holds #2 with 30-day interest +19.21% (75.1 versus 63.0) and volume about 860,019. Bongo Cat holds #3 with 30-day interest +4.38% and volume about 187,676. TBH: Task Bar Hero is a new #10. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, yesterday's #5, is gone.

Counter-Strike 2
Holds #1. Rank is unchanged from August 25. get_growth 7-day collapsed_range, so that window is omitted. The 30-day print used July 1 versus June 1: 76.3 versus 82.0 interest (-6.95%) and 1,420,896 versus 1,573,727 peak-ish volume (-9.71%). Valve's tactical shooter remains the concurrent-player fixture.
Dota 2
Holds #2. Rank is unchanged. 30-day interest 75.1 versus 63.0 (+19.21%) with volume 860,019 versus 862,639 (-0.3%). The MOBA is the second Valve row.
Bongo Cat
Holds #3. Rank is unchanged after a climb from #4 on August 24. 30-day interest 100.0 versus 95.8 (+4.38%) and volume 187,676 versus 180,178 (+4.16%). The desktop-pet idle title is still the novelty holdover.
Palworld
Holds #4. Rank is unchanged. 30-day interest 34.4 versus 1.0 (+3,340%) with volume 956,613 versus 51,116 (+1,771.46%), the same low-June baseline noted on August 25. Pocketpair's creature-survival game remains a rebound row, not a new launch.
FiveM
Rises from #6 on August 25 to #5 after PUBG left. The GTA V multiplayer client is a one-rank bump, not a FiveM version headline.
How to Fish
Rises from #7 to #6. Rank change is one slot. No widely reported fishing-sim update dated August 26 was attached.
Marvel Rivals
Rises from #8 to #7. Rank change is one slot. The hero shooter is a holdover, not a season-drop note for August 26.
Apex Legends
Rises from #9 to #8. Rank change is one slot. Respawn's battle royale stays in the same cluster as Marvel Rivals.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Rises from #10 to #9. Rank change is one slot. Ubisoft's tactical shooter is a holdover.
TBH: Task Bar Hero
A new #10. Steam lists a May 27, 2026 full release from Nugem Studio and Tesseract Studio, free to play, with 500+ items and Steam Market trading. The idle RPG runs in the Windows taskbar. It replaces PUBG.

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What changed on Steam since yesterday

New in the top 10 versus August 25: TBH: Task Bar Hero (#10). Drop-offs: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (#5). Big movers: none of 5 ranks. FiveM from #6 to #5; How to Fish from #7 to #6; Marvel Rivals from #8 to #7; Apex from #9 to #8; Siege from #10 to #9. Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Bongo Cat, and Palworld hold 1 through 4.

What today's Steam games reveal

Valve still owns the top two, with CS2 concurrent volume near 1.42 million on the June-July 30-day window and Dota 2 near 860,000. Bongo Cat at #3 is the idle outlier at about 187,676. Palworld at #4 still carries a +3,340% print off a 1.0 June baseline.

The only true replacement is Task Bar Hero at #10, a May 27 free-to-play taskbar RPG, for PUBG at yesterday's #5. For Steam tooling, see Steam trends.

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This ranked list is the August 26, 2026 get_top_trends snapshot for type Steam Most Played with limit 10. Product and research teams that watch concurrent ranks as they move can call the same feed as new rows arrive. The generating call:

{
  "type": "Steam Most Played",
  "limit": 10
}

See the Steam Most Played API page for source notes.