SteamWatch methodology

Data health.

Clear collection status, coverage and retention details for the charts behind SteamWatch.

Report generated 26 Oct 2026 · 20:18 UTC

Latest collectionPartial coverage7,316 of 7,762 player readings confirmed
Latest successful reading26 Oct 2026 · 20:13 UTCLast run to record at least one confirmed player count
24-hour player coverage66.7%645,632 confirmed of 968,588 attempted readings
Collection windows absent10242 distinct windows observed against 144; 127 collection requests including backups
Chart coverage

What each chart can show

Freshness is shown in UTC

Concurrent players

Detailed readings retained for up to 7 days

Daily peak, average, low and latest retained long-term

Steam global charts

Most-played ranking captured with collection runs

Daily rank and player summaries retained

Top sellers

Steam revenue rank captured with collection runs

Daily rank history retained; Steam does not publish sales totals

Twitch viewers

Only where Twitch can be matched to a tracked game

Detailed readings retained for up to 7 days; daily peaks retained

Steam reviews

Refreshed on a rolling basis from Steam

Historical review periods are retained when supplied

Prices

Checked on a rolling basis and recorded when a price changes

Price-change history retained by region where available

Critic reviews

155 collected from 5 selected outlets across 42 SteamWatch game pages

65 attached to 21 monthly-tracked games; 131 attached to 32 global-chart games. Titles can appear in both sets.
Reading the numbers

How SteamWatch treats gaps

Zero is a real reading

A zero player count is shown only when Steam returns one. A missing, unavailable or failed response is never converted into zero.

Incomplete is visible

Game pages show their available sample count. New releases and titles with a temporary Steam response gap will have less complete short-term charts.

Collection timing

Collection is scheduled around every ten minutes. A missing window means SteamWatch has no completed run recorded for that interval; a partial run is reported separately.

Collector monitoring

The collector monitor raises an internal alert after three consecutive runs with critically low player coverage.

178,284 daily player records are currently retained. This page reports system-wide health; individual chart labels remain the source of truth for a specific game.