How many people play Apex Legends? Player count in 2024

Apex Legends is one of the most popular battle royale games in the world. But how many people are actually playing Apex Legends as of May 2024?

Apex Legends‘ success was a surprise to the developers at Respawn Entertainment, who didn’t expect their entry into the battle royale genre to be such a smash hit.

Despite these timid expectations, Apex Legends’ player count hit 1 million within the first 24 hours of release back on February 4, 2019. By the end of the first week, it had reached 25 million players, and then 50 million in the first month.

But, over five years on, and 20 seasons in, how many people play Apex Legends in 2024?

Contents

• Total players
• Player count in 2024
• Player count vs other Battle Royale games

Apex Legends total players

More than 130 million players have dropped into Apex Legends over its lifetime. This figure was last confirmed in 2022 however, and so will be much higher now.

On April 14, 2021, Respawn announced that Apex Legends had hit 100 million players in total. This was boosted thanks to the release of the game on Steam and Nintendo Switch.

In EA’s earnings call in February 2022, the publisher said that monthly active players in Apex were “up more than 30% year-over-year in Q3.”

“With more than 28 million new players joining in the last year and new seasons and in-game events that continue to deliver new experiences to a deeply engaged community, FY 2022 is the biggest year yet for Apex.”

While the exact figure wasn’t revealed, we can at least assume somewhere around 130 million total players have now played the game since.

Apex Legends player count in 2024

In 2024, the Apex Legends player count is 18 million active monthly players. EA confirmed this in their FY2024 Q1 earnings call on August 1, 2023.

Back in August 2021, EA revealed that Apex Legends averaged 13 million weekly active players, meaning since then, the average has only grown.

However, the latter half of 2023 saw a drop in average player count on Steam, which is the only platform to provide live player count data, which we’ll discuss next.

Apex Legends live player count

As of May 2024, we can get an accurate player count measurement using Steam. In Season 19, Apex Legends’ latest peak player count was 438,349 – slightly higher than what it was in October 2023.

Now in Season 20, the peak player count for May 2024 is 430,800. Remember these numbers are for the Steam platform only.

The average number of concurrent players in April 2024 was 166,626 on Steam. Given that many players will be on console, Switch, and PC through the EA App, the overall number will be much higher than this.

Steam is the only platform to reveal accurate player count statistics accessible through their API. Other platforms such as Xbox, PlayStation, EA App, or Nintendo Switch do not reveal player numbers.

Apex Legends launched on Steam in November 2020 and reached its all-time peak player count of over 620,000 in Season 16.

Apex Legends player count vs other games

Other popular FPS games that were recently released also have their Steam stats available letting us compare how Apex stacks up to its competition.

Warzone is available on Steam as part of the Call of Duty franchise. As of March 2024, Call of Duty averaged 82,000 players on Steam, a lot lower than Apex. Although, Call of Duty is still much more popular on console than on PC.

We will continue to update this article to reflect player data each month, so make sure to stay tuned on how many players are logging into Apex Legends each day.

In the meantime, check out our Overwatch and Valorant player count trackers to see how those games stack up against Respawn’s battle royale.

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