Steam Player Count

Aion 2's Steam player count since the global launch, read from SteamDB's hourly data: the 397,905 all-time peak of Oct 5, 2026, the Advanced Access start at 171,530, the weekend that nearly matched launch, the Wednesday maintenance dips, where the count stood on Oct 23 and Vi.ki's own hourly analysis of what Steam counts now.

Aion 2 peaked at 397,905 players on Steam on Oct 5, 2026, the day it became free for everyone, and eighteen days later, on Oct 23, its best hour of the day still held 243,319, about 61% of that peak (SteamDB). 2:04 The combat Trunx Official describes in his review of the global test, skill chains with short windows, back attacks and telegraphs to dodge mid-chain, is what those hundreds of thousands were playing. Steam's count leaves out everyone on NC's PURPLE launcher, which shares the same servers, and everyone in Korea and Taiwan, where the game runs on its own service with a mobile client (Platforms); the chart itself is on the home page, and the Korean launch figures are on Reception and Revenue.

Sep 30 to Oct 23, 2026: what moved the count

The count on Steam began at 13:00 UTC on Sep 30, 2026, when Founder's Pack owners entered Advanced Access an hour later than planned, and reached 171,530 by 16:00 UTC that day, while the game led Steam's top sellers (NC; SteamDB). Through the five paid days the daily peak sat between 137,372 (Oct 2) and 152,740 (Oct 4), each one at 16:00 UTC, which is early evening in Europe and morning on the American west coast (Founder's Packs).

The free launch at 13:00 UTC on Oct 5 more than doubled it. Steam counted 2,897 players at 11:00 UTC, during the launch maintenance, and 397,905 at 18:00 UTC, the all-time peak SteamDB prints over the chart (Inven Global; SteamDB). The first full week stayed close to it: 383,176 on Oct 6, 373,854 on Oct 7, and on Sunday, Oct 11, 392,300 at 16:00 UTC, the nearest the count has come to launch day since (Global Release).

The second and third weeks settled lower. The daily peak was 322,276 on Oct 13, 304,373 on Oct 14, and 288,259 on Oct 16; the weekend of Oct 17 and 18 lifted it back to 301,962 and 310,363, and the following week ran from 264,751 (Oct 19) down to 243,319 on Oct 23, the last day in SteamDB's data as Vi.ki read it (SteamDB; the patches are on Updates and Seasons).

The shape of a day and a week

Every weekly maintenance shows as a hole in the line. The Wednesday maintenance, which NC schedules from 23:30 Pacific time on Tuesday (Timers), is the 14,254 players Steam counted at 08:00 UTC on Oct 7, the 12,327 at 09:00 UTC on Oct 14 and the 9,992 at 10:00 UTC on Oct 21; on every other day the low of the day sits at 06:00 or 07:00 UTC, between 145,956 (Oct 23) and 238,196 (Oct 11) (SteamDB).

Averaged over the 557 hours from Sep 30 to Oct 23, the busiest hour of the day on Steam was 18:00 UTC, with 286,046 players on average, and the quietest 07:00 UTC, with 134,374, by Vi.ki's reading of SteamDB's hourly data. The daily peak fell at 16:00 UTC during Advanced Access and moved to 18:00 to 20:00 UTC once the free players arrived, so the launch crowd shifted the evening toward the Americas. The analysis below recomputes the busiest hour and weekday every hour from Steam's live count, so its answer can differ from this reading as the weeks go by.

Vi.ki's analysis of the Steam counts

The hourly numbers below are Vi.ki's own: the web server asks Steam for Aion 2's count every hour and keeps every answer, and from them works out the latest count and the day's peak, the share of the 397,905 peak, the 7- and 30-day trends, the busiest and quietest hours and weekday, how much of the Oct 5 crowd stayed after a week and a month compared with the other launches Vi.ki charts, the rank among those games, and our outlook.

Aion 2 had 155,078 players on Steam at the latest hourly reading (Nov 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC), with a peak of 178,622 in the 24 hours before it. That is 39% of its all-time peak, and the best day of the last 30 reached 81% of it.

Latest reading	155,078 (Nov 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC)
Peak, last 24 hours	178,622
All-time peak	397,905 (on Oct 5, 2026)
Average daily peak, last 7 days	186,725 (−11% on the week before)

When people play: the hour of the day

Over the last 25 days, Steam's count was highest at 16:00 UTC (8 AM in Los Angeles, 11 AM in New York, 4 PM in London, 5 PM in Berlin, 1 AM in Tokyo), when it ran 23% above the day's average, and lowest at 07:00 UTC, 25% below it. The busiest hour had 1.6 times the players of the quietest. For the fullest lobbies and shortest queues, play near the peak; for quiet servers, near the low.

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When people play: the day of the week

Over the last eight weeks, the busiest day was Sunday, whose peak ran 9% above the week around it, and the quietest was Tuesday, 6% below it. Weekend peaks averaged +9% against weekday peaks.

How many stayed after launch

Aion 2 opened with a best day of 397,905 players in its first two weeks; a month on, its daily peak averaged 219,027, so it kept 55% of its launch crowd and lost about 45% in its first month. Among the 15 launches Vi.ki charts from day one, the typical game kept 42% after a month; Aion 2 kept more than 10 of the other 14.

Against the best day of the first two weeks after Global Advanced Access (Sep 30, 2026), 397,905 players, the average daily peak of the week around each mark:

After	Daily peak	Of the launch peak
7 days	343,415	86%
30 days	219,027	55%

Among the games Vi.ki charts

By the peak of the last 24 hours, Aion 2 is #3 of the 25 games with a Steam chart on Vi.ki, just behind Deadlock (265,810) and ahead of Probably Stolen (150,867).

Our outlook

We think Aion 2 is cooling: over the last four weeks its daily peak fell 13% a week. Declines like this usually slow, so if nothing changes we expect daily peaks near 90,096 three months from now; the next big update is what would turn it. This is our projection of the trend, not a reported figure.

How this is made: Vi.ki records Steam's own count of people playing every hour (Steam's public player count) and holds SteamDB's measured chart before that. The hour and weekday patterns compare each hour with its own day, so a rising or falling month does not tilt them. Steam only: console and other stores are not counted. Updated every hour; this page may be up to a day behind.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Aion 2 losing players on Steam?

Since the Oct 5, 2026 launch the daily peak has eased, from 397,905 that day to 310,363 on Sunday, Oct 18, and 243,319 on Oct 23, by SteamDB's data as Vi.ki read it on Oct 23. Weekends lift the count by 14,000 to 46,000 over the Friday and Monday around them, and the analysis above gives the 7- and 30-day trend from the live count.

What hour is Aion 2 busiest on Steam?

18:00 UTC, by Vi.ki's average of SteamDB's hourly counts from Sep 30 to Oct 23, 2026, with 07:00 UTC the quietest. That is 19:00 or 20:00 in Central Europe and 11:00 on the American west coast, so the European evening and the American morning overlap at the top; the live analysis above says whether that has moved.