Steam
Counter-Strike 2 holds rank 1 on the Steam Most Played board for September 7, 2026, with Dota 2 at rank 2 and PUBG at rank 3, the same podium as September 6. Bongo Cat is the idle climb, from rank 5 to rank 4, swapping with Apex Legends™ (rank 4 to rank 5) on a U.S. Labor Day PC session. TBH: Task Bar Hero is the only new row, at rank 9. Path of Exile 2 drops off rank 10. Delta Force slides from rank 7 to rank 10. The snapshot is as_of 2026-09-07T08:01:38.626101+00:00, microseconds 626101.
Top trending games on Steam Most Played: September 7
CS2: Counter-Strike 2, Valve's competitive shooter. It holds rank 1. Thirty-day Steam growth (August 1 versus July 1; the 7 day window collapsed) is -3.28 percent, index 76.3 to 73.8, volume 1,331,274 against 1,420,896. The rank is a fixture; the 30-day series is slightly down.
Dota 2: Valve's five-on-five. It holds rank 2. Thirty-day growth is +14.51 percent, index 75.1 to 86.0, volume 981,123 against 860,019. Among the top 3, this is the only 30-day rise.
PUBG: Battle royale. It holds rank 3. Thirty-day growth is -2.02 percent, index 19.8 to 19.4, volume 771,621 against 792,142. Rank 3 is intact while the 30-day index barely moved.
Bongo Cat: Cute idle clicker. It climbed from rank 5 to rank 4. Thirty-day growth is -7.3 percent, index 100.0 to 92.7, volume 181,650 against 187,676. Rank improved on a holiday Monday even as the 30-day series cooled from a 100.0 peak.
Apex Legends™: Free-to-play shooter (keep ™). It slipped from rank 4 to rank 5, trading with Bongo Cat. No widely reported patch trigger identified for September 7, 2026; the move is a one-rank holiday shuffle.
FiveM: GTA V multiplayer modification client. It climbed from rank 8 to rank 6. The two-rank rise is a session-length story on a day off, not a new store launch.
Palworld: Creature-crafting survival. It slipped from rank 6 to rank 7. Still inside the top 10; the slot above it went to FiveM.
Wallpaper Engine: Live wallpaper workshop. It climbed from rank 9 to rank 8. Desktop-idle software moving up beside Bongo Cat fits a Labor Day PC left on in the background.
TBH: Task Bar Hero: Tiny idle RPG that runs in the Windows taskbar. New at rank 9. The Steam Most Played API row is the holiday idle counterpart to Bongo Cat: a game designed to sit on screen while something else is happening.
Delta Force: Shooter. It fell from rank 7 to rank 10, a three-rank drop that opened the door for TBH at 9 after Path of Exile 2 left.
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What changed on Steam since yesterday
New: TBH: Task Bar Hero at rank 9.
Drop-off: Path of Exile 2 from rank 10.
Movers: Bongo Cat 5 to 4; Apex Legends™ 4 to 5; FiveM 8 to 6; Palworld 6 to 7; Wallpaper Engine 9 to 8; Delta Force 7 to 10.
Holds: CS2 at 1; Dota 2 at 2; PUBG at 3. No five-rank-plus mover. Delta Force's three-rank fall (7 to 10) is the largest step inside the 10.
What today's Steam trends reveal
The competitive floor did not move: CS2, Dota 2, PUBG at ranks 1, 2, and 3. Under that floor, Labor Day PC time favored cute idle and desktop toys. Bongo Cat at rank 4, Wallpaper Engine at rank 8, and TBH: Task Bar Hero new at rank 9 are the holiday cluster. Path of Exile 2 leaving rank 10 is the ARPG that lost the last slot after week-1-adjacent PC time shifted.
Thirty-day growth (August 1 versus July 1) splits the podium. Dota 2 is up 14.51 percent on volume 981,123. CS2 is down 3.28 percent on volume 1,331,274. PUBG is down 2.02 percent on volume 771,621. Bongo Cat's rank 4 sits on a 30-day decline of 7.3 percent from index 100.0 to 92.7, which means a holiday rank pop is not the same as a month-long demand rise.
FiveM at rank 6 and Palworld at rank 7 are the session games that swapped. Delta Force parking at rank 10 is the shooter that absorbed the PoE2 hole. The board is fixtures on top, idle in the middle, one new taskbar game at 9.
Track these trends in real time with Trends MCP
These ranks come from the Trends MCP get_top_trends call with type Steam Most Played and limit 10, as_of 2026-09-07T08:01:38.626101+00:00 (microseconds 626101). Thirty-day get_growth figures for CS2, Dota 2, PUBG, and Bongo Cat use source steam, window 30D, dates August 1 versus July 1, because the 7 day window collapsed. Diff the board against the September 6 Steam recap.
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