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Left 4 Dead
#791 most played
Playing now
377
7d trend
-2.5%
531 vs 544
24h peak
624
low 304
7d peak
755
All-time peak
774
Dec 2012 · now 49% of peak
Avg 30d
538
Hours played
159,742
30d
Best rank
#650
now #791
Top sellers
#1,051
Positive reviews
96%
67,656

Left 4 Dead

Live player count and Steam charts

96% positive · 67,656 reviews
24h low 30424h high 624

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.

DeveloperValve
PublisherValve
ReleasedNov 17, 2008
Runs onWindows
Steam hardwareSteam Deck Playable · SteamOS Playable · Steam Machine Playable
Price$9.99

Player history

2015201820202023

Each point is the highest number of players online in that month (UTC). History before July 13, 2026 is imported; everything after is our own readings. Zoom in for finer detail.

Monthly player counts

* current month, data so far
MonthAvg playersGain% gainPeak
Jul 2026 *553+68+14.0%1,204
Jun 2026485+32+7.1%1,169
May 2026453+5+1.1%725
Apr 2026448-65-12.7%778
Mar 2026513+56+12.3%1,073
Feb 2026457-116-20.2%728
Jan 2026573+34+6.3%1,104
Dec 2025539+35+6.9%1,083
Nov 2025504-26-4.9%1,082
Oct 2025530+123+30.2%1,061
Sep 2025407-47-10.4%752
Aug 2025454-148-24.6%735

* current month, data so far

Recent updates

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When people play

00:00
06:00
12:00
18:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
279
758avg players

Average concurrent players by day and hour over the last 16 days, shown in .

Daily activity peaks around 18:00 — a pattern consistent with a player base concentrated in Europe, the Middle East & Africa, with a second wave suggesting a sizable audience in East Asia & Oceania. Steam publishes no per-country player data, so this is inferred from play times.

Audience

English
28%
Russian
22%
Spanish (Spain)
19%
Portuguese (Brazil)
15%
Spanish (Latin America)
8%
Chinese (Simplified)
5%
Other
3%

Language mix of 100 Steam reviews spanning 6 days — a rough proxy for where the player base is.

Achievements

Achievements
73
Median earned by
12.5%
Rarest earned by
2.4%

Every achievement in the game, ordered from most to least earned (#1 is the one the most players have). Height is the share of all players who have it; the dashed line is the median. Global rates from Steam.

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