Counter-Strike 2 was the No. 1 game on Steam Most Played on September 21, 2026, down 3.3% in 30 days (1.4M players). Ranks 2 to 5: Dota 2, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, WARDOGS and Bongo Cat. No new games entered the top 10 since September 20, 2026.
TBH: Task Bar Hero climbs 10 to 8 on Steam Most Played, pushing Aniimo to 9 and FiveM to 10. Counter-Strike 2 still holds 1. WARDOGS holds 4 after BULKHEAD and Team17 launched Steam Early Access on September 10. Trends MCP growth data for Counter-Strike 2: down 3.3% over 30 days on 1.4M versus 1.3M players through 2026-08-01. Ranks 1-7 match September 20.
Top trending games on Steam: September 21
Counter-Strike 2: Valve tactical shooter. Holds 1. Down 3.3% over 30 days (76.3 to 73.8) on 1.4M versus 1.3M players.
Dota 2: Valve MOBA. Holds 2. Up 14.5% over 30 days (75.1 to 86.0) on 860K versus 981.1K players through 2026-08-01.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS: Battle royale. Holds 3. Down 2% over 30 days (19.8 to 19.4) on 792.1K versus 771.6K players.
WARDOGS: BULKHEAD 100-player tactical FPS. Holds 4. Games Press dated Steam Early Access to September 10 at 16:00 UTC, with console wishlists for 2028.
Bongo Cat: Free taskbar cat toy from Irox Games, released March 5, 2025. Holds 5. Steam listed Overwhelmingly Positive recent reviews (2567, 95 percent) on the store fetch.
Apex Legends: Respawn battle royale. Holds 6.
Valheim: Survival crafting. Holds 7. Unchanged versus September 20.
TBH: Task Bar Hero: Desktop-toy adjacent to Bongo Cat. Climbs 10 to 8. No widely reported launch dated September 21; the move is a two-rank desktop-toy bump.
Aniimo: Falls 8 to 9. Still on the board. No widely reported September 21 patch note in the fetch.
FiveM: GTA V multiplayer modification client. Falls 9 to 10. Completes the 10 with the same names as yesterday in a new order at 8-10.
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What changed on Steam since yesterday
- New: none. Same 10 names.
- Movers: none at 5-plus ranks. TBH 10 to 8. Aniimo 8 to 9. FiveM 9 to 10.
- Unchanged rank: CS2 1 through Valheim 7.
- Dropped: none.
What today's Steam games reveal
The live concurrent board is still CS2, Dota 2, PUBG at 1-3, with Dota the only 30-day gainer among them (up 14.5%, 981.1K players). WARDOGS at 4 is an 11-day-old Early Access FPS, not a Valve title. Bongo Cat at 5 and TBH at 8 are desktop toys sitting next to Apex and Valheim.
The 8-10 shuffle (TBH, Aniimo, FiveM) is the only motion.
Track these trends in real time with Trends MCP
This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends tool. The same API is built for game analysts and developers who need a dated board instead of a screenshot. The matching data source page is Steam Most Played API.
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