Half-Life 2
Players on Steam at last update
1,149
Source: Steam Web API, as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026.
Compared with the highest reading92%
05:00 UTC reading on November 8, 2026: 1,149, 92% of the highest recorded by Statcade (1,249 on October 18, 2026, 17 readings since October 17, 2026).
- Rank by players
- #223of 309 Steam games with a player count
- Highest reading
- 1,249on October 18, 2026, 17 readings
- Copies sold
- 12.3 millionPC
- Metacritic
- 96out of 100
- Release
- Nov 16, 2004
Half-Life 2 on Statcade: players online on Steam, copies sold, facts and charts.
At a glance
| Developer | Valve |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Valve |
| Release | Nov 16, 2004 |
| Platform | PC (Steam) |
| Genre | Shooter, Action |
| Players online on Steam | 1,149 (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026) |
| Players at the 05:00 UTC reading | 1,149 (November 8, 2026, taken at 05:21 UTC) |
| Copies sold | 12.3 million (PC) |
| Metacritic | 96 |
About the game
The description from Steam and the story of the game are available in Italian on the Italian page.
Steam price
Price check of November 8, 2026 on Steam Italy (euros). The lowest price is the lowest one Statcade has seen since it started tracking the game (October 17, 2026), not Steam's full price history; free-to-keep periods do not count.
Game signature
Peak at 19:00 · low at 07:00 · the peak is 2.3 times the low
The 24-hour curve as a circle: midnight at the top, the radius is the number of players in each hour (Italian time), the gold dot is the peak hour.
Speedruns
World records and best times in the main categories of Half-Life 2 on speedrun.com.
New Engine (Any% No Voidclip) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Buster12 | 36:30,285 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | HardLifeNH | 36:45,360 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | PenPerson | 36:55,245 (new tab) |
Old Engine (With Scripts) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | VanTheRun | 37:01,635 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | HardLifeNH | 37:07,005 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | iNSM | 39:26,880 (new tab) |
Source: speedrun.com (new tab), license CC BY-NC 4.0 (new tab); data selected and reformatted by Statcade (default category and subcategories, updated on a rotating basis). All records: Speedruns.
Italian sentiment
Share of positive Steam reviews written in Italian, compared with the share across all languages.
- In Italian98.1% positive reviews1,912 positive out of 1,950 reviews
- All languages97.6% positive reviews274,451 positive out of 281,207 reviews
In line with the rest of the world: the difference (+0.5 points) stays below the 10-point threshold.
Source: Steam, user reviews (all purchases), checked on October 18, 2026. What counts is the language the review is written in, not the reviewer's country; “all languages” includes Italian too. All games: Italian sentiment.
When to play to find the most players
Busiest: 18:00–21:00 (on average 2,069 players) Quietest: 06:00–09:00 (940 on average)
| Time slot | Average players | Compared with the daily average |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00–03:00 | 1,341 | 91% |
| 03:00–06:00 | 1,112 | 76% |
| 06:00–09:00 quietest | 940 | 64% |
| 09:00–12:00 | 1,159 | 79% |
| 12:00–15:00 | 1,498 | 102% |
| 15:00–18:00 | 1,830 | 125% |
| 18:00–21:00 busiest | 2,069 | 141% |
| 21:00–24:00 | 1,783 | 122% |
Source: Statcade hourly readings from the Steam Web API GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers, since October 18; times in Italian time (CET/CEST).
How we calculate it
Every hour we record the players online on Steam. We convert each reading to Italian time (daylight saving time included), average each hour over all days and then average each 3-hour slot (00–03, 03–06, … 21–24). Hours in which the reading is anomalous for the whole catalogue are excluded. Players come from all over the world, not just Italy: the slot shows how many people are online on Steam at that Italian time.
Data: Wikipedia (en), “Half-Life 2”, Wikipedia, Steam.
Rivals
Titanfall® 21,470 players at last updatemore players than Half-Life 2
Halo Infinite1,866 players at last updatemore players than Half-Life 2
Battlefield™ 2042690 players at last updatefewer players than Half-Life 2
Steam games with the same main genre (“Shooter”) and the closest number of players online (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026). Source: Steam Web API.