Apex Legends is still one of the most popular battle royale games in the world, but how many people still play Apex in 2023? Now available on almost every platform as well as having cross-play, the player base continues to grow.
Despite Respawn’s timid expectations, the 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.
Respawn’s battle royale was released without any previous marketing, and rapidly became one of the core games in the genre.
But, four years on, how many people play Apex Legends now?
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Apex Legends total players
Approximately 130 million players have dropped into Apex Legends over its lifetime.
On April 14, 2021, Respawn announced that Apex Legends has hit 100 million players in total. This will have been 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 2023
In 2023, the Apex Legends player count is estimated to be approximately 15 to 16 million weekly active players.
Back in August 2021, EA revealed that Apex Legends averages 13 million weekly active players. Season 9 also set a new record for daily peak players across all seasons.
In their earnings call in February 2022, EA said that Apex Legends had a 30% growth in new players year-over-year for the second year in a row. And, Apex Legends has been boosted by the successful mobile launch.
EA: "More than 28 million new players [joined] Apex Legends in the last year."
That's a big number for a game that released in 2019 😳 pic.twitter.com/18ulk5cx1w
— Apex Legends News (@alphaINTEL) February 1, 2022
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Apex Legends live player count
As of January 2023, the average player count on Steam for Apex Legends is 175,000 concurrent players. The peak was 395,000.
On August 10, after the launch of Season 14, Apex Legends hit its all-time live player count record of 510,286 on Steam only.
Steam is the only platform to reveal accurate player count statistics accessible through their API. Other platforms such as Xbox, PlayStation, Origin or Nintendo Switch to not reveal player numbers.
Apex Legends launched on Steam in November 2020, and since then has hit new records on the platform with each successive season, peaking at over 500,000 in Season 14.
Apex Legends player count vs other games
Other popular FPS games that were recently released also have their stats available.
Warzone 2 is now available on Steam as part of Modern Warfare 2. In November 2022, Warzone 2/MW2 reached 488,000 peak players on Steam, with an average of 177,000.
We will continue to update this article to reflect player data each month, so make sure and 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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