Counter-Strike 2 remains rank 1 on Steam Most Played on August 30, 2026, the same slot as August 29. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is the mover: rank 6 yesterday, rank 3 today. FiveM falls 3 to 6. How to Fish, which launched August 20 at $7.99 (then $4.95 in a 38 percent discount per ActivePlayer), re-enters at rank 9 after leaving for Rust and EA SPORTS FC 26. A Steam Most Played API 30-day growth pull, with 7-day windows collapsed, shows CS2 at -6.95 percent (volume 1,420,896), Dota 2 at +19.21 percent (volume 860,019), and PUBG at +3.66 percent (volume 792,142), all dated July 1 versus June 1.
Top trending games on Steam: August 30
Counter-Strike 2: Valve tactical shooter, rank 1 both days. Steam 30D index growth -6.95 percent, recent volume 1,420,896 versus 1,573,727. Recurring concurrent leader.
Dota 2: Valve MOBA, rank 2 both days. Steam 30D +19.21 percent, recent volume 860,019 versus 862,639. Volume growth is -0.3 percent even as the 0-100 index rises.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS: Battle royale, rank 6 on August 29, rank 3 today. Steam 30D +3.66 percent, volume 792,142. A 3-place climb, not a 5-plus mover.
Palworld: Pocket-pair survival game, rank 5 on August 29, rank 4 today. Steam 30D +3,340 percent off a June 1.0 baseline, volume 956,613 versus 51,116. That print is a low-base June-to-July jump, not a same-week launch.
Bongo Cat: Rhythm/idle title, rank 4 on August 29, rank 5 today. Steam 30D +4.38 percent, volume 187,676.
FiveM: GTA V multiplayer modification client, rank 3 on August 29, rank 6 today. A 3-place drop. A Steam growth call on FiveM 404'd on prior runs and was not reused here.
Marvel Rivals: NetEase hero shooter, rank 7 both days.
Apex Legends: Respawn battle royale, new versus August 29 (Rust held rank 8 yesterday). Recurring free-to-play fixture.
How to Fish: Co-op fishing game that launched August 20. ActivePlayer put an all-time concurrent peak at 356,099 on August 25 at 13:58 UTC, with daily peaks of 42,453 (August 21), 142,110 (August 22), and 267,477 (August 23). New versus August 29.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege: Ubisoft tactical shooter, rank 10 both days.
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What changed on Steam since August 29
New entrants: Apex Legends (8), How to Fish (9).
Big movers: none of 5 or more ranks. PUBG 6 to 3; FiveM 3 to 6.
Drop-offs: Rust (was 8), EA SPORTS FC 26 (was 9).
What today's Steam board reveals
The top two are fixtures. The story is the middle: PUBG overtaking FiveM and Palworld, and How to Fish returning after a 356,099 peak five days after launch. EA FC 26 lasted one day at 9.
Steam 7-day growth is still collapsed, so the only sourced growth windows are June-to-July 30-day prints. Those do not explain Saturday's rank swaps; they only bound the long-run concurrent volumes.
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This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends feed for Steam Most Played with limit 10 as of 2026-08-30T04:01:38.703531+00:00. The matching data source page is Steam Most Played API.
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