How many people play Apex Legends? 2024 player count trend explained Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends is now five years old, yet despite its age, it continues to be one of the most played titles on the market, and its 2024 player count performs surprisingly well compared to other games. When Apex Legends dropped back in February 2019, nobody could have predicted that Respawn\u2019s first entry into the battle royale realm would be such a smash hit. Releasing at a time when Fortnite dominated the genre, the game offered a different kind of experience, with its three-man squad gameplay setting it apart from its rivals. Since then, it\u2019s survived the rise of Warzone, and new FPS contenders like The FINALS and XDefiant, and remains one of the most popular battle royales in the world. Here\u2019s everything you need to know about how many people are playing it in 2024. Despite these timid expectations, Apex Legends\u2019 player count hit 1 million within the first 24 hours of release back on February 4, 2019. By the end of the first week, it had reached 25 million players, and then 50 million in the first month. Player count as of 2024 In 2024, Apex Legends\u2019 player count is 18 million active monthly players, as confirmed by EA in their FY2024 Q1 earnings call on August 1, 2023. However, in their Q1 2025 earnings call on July 30, 2024, EA\u2019s Chief Financial Officer Stuart Cranfield admitted that the game had seen a \u201cyear-on-year decline.\u201d The good news is that according to Cranfield, this decline \u201cimproved sequentially\u201d and ended up coming back in line with their expectations. The company did not release new figures for player numbers during this call. Apex Legends\u2019 average player count is dropping This statement from Stuart Cranfield is seen clearly when we take a look at the average and peak player count for Apex Legends. While August did see a 2.79% increase in average players to 120,008 according to SteamCharts, three of the last five months have seen a net loss, with two of those months seeing a 16.5% decrease. The same can be seen when looking at peak player count during this five-month span, with July 2024 seeing a significant drop. In July, the peak player count on Steam was 265,369, the lowest since January 2022. Of course, there is context we need to consider with these numbers and charts. For one, this only includes numbers on Steam and doesn\u2019t take into account performance on consoles like PS5 or Xbox Series X\/S. It\u2019s also worth noting that July, when Apex Legends hit low numbers, was the end of Season 21, and with Season 22: Shockwave starting on August 6, it makes sense that it saw an increase. However, the increase of 2.79% does not compare to the 16.54% and 16.45% that took place in June and July respectively. Apex Legends\u2019 player count is surprisingly great compared to other games Despite these numbers trending down, there is still good news for Apex Legends. When you compare it to other FPS games on Steam it still performs surprisingly well and beats out a lot of its competition. Using the 30-day rolling average, we can see in the table below that Apex is still a big player in the FPS scene, beating out a number of big titles on the platform. Of course, as mentioned above, SteamCharts only includes the data from Valve\u2019s platform, so it doesn\u2019t take into consideration how the game is doing on consoles, or other launchers. For example, a lot of CoD and Overwatch players will use Battle.net rather than Steam, so the number is higher than what we see above. Still, it shows that Apex performs well compared to it\u2019s competition, although it\u2019s unlikely to ever challenge Valve\u2019s FPS King Counter-Strike. All-time player count More than 130 million players have dropped into Apex Legends over its lifetime. This figure was last confirmed in 2022 however, and so will be much higher now. On April 14, 2021, Respawn announced that Apex Legends had hit 100 million players in total. This was boosted thanks to the release of the game on Steam and Nintendo Switch. In EA\u2019s earnings call in February 2022, the publisher said that monthly active players in Apex were \u201cup more than 30% year-over-year in Q3.\u201d \u201cWith more than 28 million new players joining in the last year and new seasons and in-game events that continue to deliver new experiences to a deeply engaged community, FY 2022 is the biggest year yet for Apex.\u201d While the exact figure wasn\u2019t revealed, we can at least assume somewhere around 130 million total players have now played the game since. What is Apex Legends\u2019 peak player count? Apex Legends launched on Steam in November 2020 and reached its all-time peak player count of over 620,000 in Season 16. We will continue to update this article to reflect player data each month, so make sure to stay tuned on how many players are logging into Apex Legends each day. In the meantime, check out our Overwatch and Valorant player count trackers to see how those games stack up against Respawn\u2019s battle royale. 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