Live Steam player count comparison, updated every 10 minutes. Both are Action games.
War Robots: Frontiers is currently the more played game: 259 concurrent players on Steam right now vs 145 for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch — about 1.8× more players. Half-Life 2: Deathmatch counters with better Steam reviews: 91% positive vs 65%. War Robots: Frontiers is free to play. Across all tracked metrics, War Robots: Frontiers leads 7 of 10.
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Tracked by Coilr since April 2026 · Steam polled every 10 minutes · methodology
War Robots: Frontiers has had the higher daily player count for the last 38 days — every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
Days tracked
38
Current streak
38 days
War Robots: Frontiers
Lead changes
0
Closest gap
34%
Jul 6, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's 10-minute Steam polls), compared on the 38 days where both games have data — whichever averages higher leads that day. methodology
| Metric | Half-Life 2: Deathmatch | War Robots: Frontiers |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 145 | 259 |
| 24-hour peak | 187 | 300 |
| 7-day average | 122 | 251 |
| 30-day average | 126 | 245 |
| 30-day trend | +5% | +7% |
| Peak (tracked) | 234 | 421 |
| Steam reviews | 91% positive | 65% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 88% positive | 68% positive |
| Total reviews | 15,257 | 4,760 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~10,000,000 | ~20,000,000 |
| Release date | Oct 31, 2004 | Mar 3, 2025 |
| Price | — | Free to play |
Full stats: Half-Life 2: Deathmatch · War Robots: Frontiers · add more games to this comparison →
| Month | Half-Life 2: Deathmatch | War Robots: Frontiers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | 116 | 136 | — | — |
| May 2026 | 117 | 185 | 249 | 271 |
| Jun 2026 | 124 | 232 | 237 | 421 |
| Jul 2026 (so far) | 128 | 234 | 244 | 416 |
Monthly average and peak concurrent players on Steam, from Coilr's own tracking (10-minute polls, hourly beyond 30 days).
War Robots: Frontiers currently has more players: 259 concurrent players on Steam vs 145 for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch — about 1.8× more players.
Over the last 30 days Half-Life 2: Deathmatch averaged 126 concurrent players and War Robots: Frontiers averaged 245. By that measure War Robots: Frontiers is currently the bigger game.
Not in Coilr's head-to-head tracking: War Robots: Frontiers has had the higher daily average concurrent player count on Steam on every one of the 38 days both games have been tracked.
By Steam review score, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch rates higher: 91% positive across 15,257 reviews vs 65% across 4,760 for War Robots: Frontiers. War Robots: Frontiers has the larger player base right now (259 vs 145 concurrent). Player counts, ratings, price and trend are compared side by side above.
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch averaged 126 concurrent players over the last 30 days, up 5% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 234.
War Robots: Frontiers averaged 245 concurrent players over the last 30 days, up 7% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 421.