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Digital Exhaust · intraday ban:none tA

SteamDB concurrent players per AppID

live + 24h peak concurrent player count for a specific game

Feed detail
Measures
live + 24h peak concurrent player count for a specific game
Source
Steam Web API ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers + store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails (undocumented but stable, no key needed for player count endpoint)
Access
json-api
Cadence
intradayupdates multiple times a day
Thesis
concurrent-player trend leads publisher quarterly bookings and DLC/microtransaction revenue for single-title-dependent studios weeks before earnings
Maps to
individual game-publisher equities (e.g. small caps with 1-2 hit titles like Frontier Developments, Team17, Paradox)
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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