Live Steam player count comparison, updated every 10 minutes. Both are Action games.
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is currently the more played game: 2,429 concurrent players on Steam right now vs 1,946 for Half-Life 2 — about 25% more players. Half-Life 2 counters with better Steam reviews: 98% positive vs 85%. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is currently 90% off on Steam. Across all tracked metrics, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 leads 5 of 9.
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Tracked by Coilr since April 2026 · Steam polled every 10 minutes · methodology
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has had the higher daily player count for the last 48 days — every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
Days tracked
48
Current streak
48 days
Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Lead changes
0
Closest gap
2%
May 18, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's 10-minute Steam polls), compared on the 48 days where both games have data — whichever averages higher leads that day. methodology
| Metric | Half-Life 2 | Warhammer: Vermintide 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 1,946 | 2,429 |
| 24-hour peak | 2,186 | 3,245 |
| 7-day average | 1,647 | 2,238 |
| 30-day average | 1,699 | 2,238 |
| 30-day trend | +25% | — |
| Peak (tracked) | 2,950 | 4,821 |
| Steam reviews | 98% positive | 85% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 96% positive | 84% positive |
| Total reviews | 276,567 | 146,950 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~10,000,000 | ~2,000,000 |
| Release date | Nov 15, 2004 | Mar 7, 2018 |
| Price | $9.99 | $2.99 (−90%) |
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| Month | Half-Life 2 | Warhammer: Vermintide 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | 1,081 | 1,352 | 1,375 | 1,738 |
| May 2026 | 1,168 | 1,882 | 1,654 | 4,821 |
| Jun 2026 | 1,425 | 2,701 | — | — |
| Jul 2026 (so far) | 1,783 | 2,950 | 2,242 | 3,710 |
Monthly average and peak concurrent players on Steam, from Coilr's own tracking (10-minute polls, hourly beyond 30 days).
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 currently has more players: 2,429 concurrent players on Steam vs 1,946 for Half-Life 2 — about 25% more players.
Over the last 30 days Half-Life 2 averaged 1,699 concurrent players and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 averaged 2,238. By that measure Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is currently the bigger game.
Not in Coilr's head-to-head tracking: Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has had the higher daily average concurrent player count on Steam on every one of the 48 days both games have been tracked.
By Steam review score, Half-Life 2 rates higher: 98% positive across 276,567 reviews vs 85% across 146,950 for Warhammer: Vermintide 2. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has the larger player base right now (2,429 vs 1,946 concurrent). Player counts, ratings, price and trend are compared side by side above.
Half-Life 2 averaged 1,699 concurrent players over the last 30 days, up 25% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 2,950.