Live Steam player count comparison, updated every 10 minutes. Both are Action games.
Batman™: Arkham Knight is currently the more played game: 2,308 concurrent players on Steam right now vs 1,860 for Half-Life 2 — about 24% more players. Half-Life 2 counters with better Steam reviews: 98% positive vs 90%. Across all tracked metrics, Batman™: Arkham Knight leads 5 of 9.
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Tracked by Coilr since April 2026 · Steam polled every 10 minutes · methodology
Batman™: Arkham Knight has had the higher daily player count for the last 15 days — every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
Days tracked
15
Current streak
15 days
Batman™: Arkham Knight
Lead changes
0
Closest gap
19%
Jul 19, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's 10-minute Steam polls), compared on the 15 days where both games have data — whichever averages higher leads that day. methodology
| Metric | Batman™: Arkham Knight | Half-Life 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 2,308 | 1,860 |
| 24-hour peak | 3,084 | 2,448 |
| 7-day average | 2,245 | 1,671 |
| 30-day average | 2,245 | 1,692 |
| 30-day trend | — | +27% |
| Peak (tracked) | 3,084 | 2,950 |
| Steam reviews | 90% positive | 98% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 95% positive | 97% positive |
| Total reviews | 157,783 | 276,089 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~2,000,000 | ~10,000,000 |
| Release date | Jun 23, 2015 | Nov 15, 2004 |
| Price | $19.99 | $9.99 |
Full stats: Batman™: Arkham Knight · Half-Life 2 · add more games to this comparison →
| Month | Batman™: Arkham Knight | Half-Life 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | 1,690 | 2,216 | 1,081 | 1,352 |
| May 2026 | — | — | 1,168 | 1,882 |
| Jun 2026 | — | — | 1,425 | 2,701 |
| Jul 2026 (so far) | 2,221 | 3,084 | 1,801 | 2,950 |
Monthly average and peak concurrent players on Steam, from Coilr's own tracking (10-minute polls, hourly beyond 30 days).
Batman™: Arkham Knight currently has more players: 2,308 concurrent players on Steam vs 1,860 for Half-Life 2 — about 24% more players.
Over the last 30 days Batman™: Arkham Knight averaged 2,245 concurrent players and Half-Life 2 averaged 1,692. By that measure Batman™: Arkham Knight is currently the bigger game.
Not in Coilr's head-to-head tracking: Batman™: Arkham Knight has had the higher daily average concurrent player count on Steam on every one of the 15 days both games have been tracked.
By Steam review score, Half-Life 2 rates higher: 98% positive across 276,089 reviews vs 90% across 157,783 for Batman™: Arkham Knight. Batman™: Arkham Knight has the larger player base right now (2,308 vs 1,860 concurrent). Player counts, ratings, price and trend are compared side by side above.
Half-Life 2 averaged 1,692 concurrent players over the last 30 days, up 27% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 2,950.