Steam
Counter-Strike 2 is rank 1 on Steam Most Played for October 12, 2026, snapshot 2026-10-12T08:01:32.934343. A steam 30-day growth call for CS2 printed minus 2.3 percent on volume 1450705. Team Fortress 2 is new at rank 10. ARC Raiders sits at rank 8 after livecounts recorded a 185443 concurrent peak on October 11 during Frozen Trail 2.0 and a free weekend. Delta Force, rank 7 on October 11, is the drop-off.
Top trending games on Steam: October 12
Counter-Strike 2
Tactical shooter at rank 1, same slot as October 11. Steam 30-day growth minus 2.3 percent, volume 1450705 versus 1331274 (volume up 8.97 percent). 7-day collapsed and is omitted.
Dota 2
MOBA at rank 2, same slot as October 11. Steam 30-day growth minus 8.14 percent, volume 919002 versus 981123. 7-day collapsed.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Battle royale at rank 3, same slot as October 11. Steam 30-day growth minus 4.64 percent, volume 788224 versus 771621. 7-day collapsed.
Bongo Cat
Desktop-pet / rhythm title at rank 4, same slot as October 11. steamdata.dev listed about 148780 concurrent around 03:00 UTC October 12.
Apex Legends
Battle royale at rank 5, same slot as October 11. Display drops the trademark sign from the API row.
FiveM
GTA V multiplayer client at rank 6 after rank 8 on October 11, up 2.
WARDOGS
Holdover at rank 7 after rank 6, down 1. steamdata.dev listed about 119174 concurrent around 03:00 UTC October 12.
ARC Raiders
Extraction shooter at rank 8 after rank 10 on October 11, up 2. Embark's Frozen Trail 2.0 shipped October 8 with a free weekend through October 12 at 10:00 CEST. livecounts put the October 11 peak at 185443.
Wallpaper Engine
Live-wallpaper tool at rank 9, same slot as October 11.
Team Fortress 2
New at rank 10. Valve's class shooter returning to the daily ten. Delta Force is the name that left.
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What changed on Steam since October 11
New entrants: Team Fortress 2 (10). Big movers (5+ ranks): none. Other moves: FiveM 8 to 6, WARDOGS 6 to 7, ARC Raiders 10 to 8. Holdovers: CS2 (1), Dota 2 (2), PUBG (3), Bongo Cat (4), Apex Legends (5), Wallpaper Engine (9). Drop-offs: Delta Force (7). as_of 2026-10-12T08:01:32.934343 versus 2026-10-11T08:01:39.099000. Clock 08:01:32.934343.
What today's Steam games reveal
The October 12 Steam ten is still a three-fixture top with a free-weekend climber. Ranks 1 through 3 are CS2, Dota 2, and PUBG. Rank 8 is ARC Raiders two ranks up after Frozen Trail 2.0 and a 185443 peak. Rank 10 is Team Fortress 2 in for Delta Force. FiveM climbed two. The board did not reshuffle the lock-in titles; it swapped the bottom of the ten.
Track these trends in real time with Trends MCP
This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends tool on October 12, 2026. The call is for analysts who need a dated snapshot of a live board rather than a keyword time series. The matching data source page is Steam Most Played API.
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