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Hunt: Showdown 1896 vs Killing Floor 2
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the more played game right now: 7,049 players on Steam against 6,334 for Killing Floor 2, a similar number of players. Hunt: Showdown 1896 has been ahead for 96 days straight.
Killing Floor 2 counters with better Steam reviews: 88% positive vs 74%. Across all tracked metrics, Hunt: Showdown 1896 leads 7 of 10.
Players over time
Live Steam player counts. Hunt: Showdown 1896 is read every 10 minutes, Killing Floor 2 every 30 minutes. Both are Action games.
Which one have you played more?
Coilr members average 98.5h in Hunt: Showdown 1896 and 24.1h in Killing Floor 2. Connect your Steam account and this row fills in with your own hours instead — then keeps tracking both, so you can see which one you are actually still playing.
Hunt: Showdown 1896
98.5h
average of 60 members
Killing Floor 2
24.1h
average of 58 members
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Hunt: Showdown 1896
12,903Killing Floor 2
6,029Daily averages · latest day · Hunt: Showdown 1896, 2.1× the players of Killing Floor 2
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Tracked by Coilr since April 2026 · Hunt: Showdown 1896 is read every 10 minutes, Killing Floor 2 every 30 minutes · methodology
These are Steam players only. A game that also runs on its own launcher, a storefront of its own or on console has players this number cannot see, so read it as a comparison of Steam audiences rather than of total ones.
Head-to-head record
Hunt: Showdown 1896 has had the higher daily player count for the last 96 days, every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 led 96 daysKilling Floor 2 led 0 days
- Days tracked
- 96
- Current streak
- 96 days
- Hunt: Showdown 1896
- Lead changes
- 0
- Closest gap
- 13%
- Oct 20, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's own Steam readings), compared on the 96 days where both games have data. Whichever averages higher leads that day.
Side by side
Every number Coilr has for both games. The better figure in each row is in green.
| Metric | Hunt: Showdown 1896 | Killing Floor 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 7,049 | 6,334 |
| 24-hour peak | 25,260 | 6,769 |
| 7-day average | 15,421 | 5,570 |
| 30-day average | 16,444 | 5,091 |
| 30-day trend | −2% | +14% |
| Peak (tracked) | 42,690 | 7,400 |
| Steam reviews | 74% positive | 88% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 67% positive | 83% positive |
| Total reviews | 280,249 | 129,520 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~10,000,000 | ~2,000,000 |
| Release date | Aug 27, 2019 | Nov 18, 2016 |
| Price | $29.99 | $29.99 |
Players by month
Monthly average and peak concurrent players on Steam, from Coilr's own tracking (readings every few minutes for the biggest games, hourly averages beyond 30 days).
| Month | Hunt: Showdown 1896 | Killing Floor 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | 10,496 | 13,611 | — | — |
| May 2026 | 16,260 | 31,426 | — | — |
| Jun 2026 | 17,828 | 42,690 | — | — |
| Jul 2026 | 16,129 | 33,283 | 4,022 | 5,997 |
| Aug 2026 | 15,049 | 30,808 | 4,342 | 6,361 |
| Sep 2026 | 17,393 | 40,111 | 4,189 | 5,773 |
| Oct 2026 (so far) | 16,065 | 32,448 | 5,764 | 7,400 |
Frequently asked
Which has more players, Hunt: Showdown 1896 or Killing Floor 2?
Hunt: Showdown 1896 currently has more players: 7,049 concurrent players on Steam vs 6,334 for Killing Floor 2, a similar number of players.
Is Hunt: Showdown 1896 bigger than Killing Floor 2 on Steam?
Over the last 30 days Hunt: Showdown 1896 averaged 16,444 concurrent players and Killing Floor 2 averaged 5,091. By that measure Hunt: Showdown 1896 is currently the bigger game.
Has Killing Floor 2 ever had more players than Hunt: Showdown 1896?
Not in Coilr's head-to-head tracking: Hunt: Showdown 1896 has had the higher daily average concurrent player count on Steam on every one of the 96 days both games have been tracked.
Is Hunt: Showdown 1896 better than Killing Floor 2?
By Steam review score, Killing Floor 2 rates higher: 88% positive across 129,520 reviews vs 74% across 280,249 for Hunt: Showdown 1896. Hunt: Showdown 1896 has the larger player base right now (7,049 vs 6,334 concurrent). Player counts, ratings, price and trend are compared side by side above.
Is Hunt: Showdown 1896 growing or declining on Steam?
Hunt: Showdown 1896 averaged 16,444 concurrent players over the last 30 days, roughly flat vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 42,690.
Is Killing Floor 2 growing or declining on Steam?
Killing Floor 2 averaged 5,091 concurrent players over the last 30 days, up 14% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 7,400.
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