R.E.P.O. has turned a midweek content update into the loudest movement on Steam's latest weekly most-played chart. The co-op horror game jumped from No. 28 to No. 7 overall for the May 9 Steam weekly chart, putting it sixth on the game-focused top 10 once Steam software and utility entries are removed.
That is the useful shift this week, not the usual Counter-Strike 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds and Dota 2 lockout at the top. On Steam's public most-played chart, R.E.P.O. finished the week with a 116,059-player weekly peak, while Apex Legends posted the biggest peak gain among the upper-table games and Marvel Rivals fell out of the game-focused top 10.
Compared with last week's Steam chart, the top three barely moved. The better read is that update-driven games are still cutting through underneath them, from R.E.P.O. and Apex Legends to smaller lower-chart climbs like Gamble With Your Friends and Conan Exiles Enhanced.
Steam's Most Played Games This Week
This table focuses on games, so Steam software and utility entries are not counted in the game rank. Weekly peak players are Steam's player-activity figure for the weekly chart date.
| Game rank | Steam rank | Game | Last week | Change | Weekly peak players |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Counter-Strike 2 | 1 | Same | 1,446,014 |
| 2 | 2 | PUBG: Battlegrounds | 2 | Same | 822,514 |
| 3 | 3 | Dota 2 | 3 | Same | 646,792 |
| 4 | 5 | Apex Legends | 6 | +1 | 325,502 |
| 5 | 6 | Slay the Spire 2 | 5 | -1 | 233,369 |
| 6 | 7 | R.E.P.O. | 28 | +21 | 116,059 |
| 7 | 8 | Grand Theft Auto V Legacy | 7 | -1 | 102,697 |
| 8 | 9 | Geometry Dash | 8 | -1 | 93,160 |
| 9 | 11 | War Thunder | 11 | Same | 100,075 |
| 10 | 12 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege | 12 | Same | 95,029 |
Counter-Strike 2 remains in its own lane, clearing 1.4 million weekly peak players, while PUBG and Dota 2 again held second and third. The more interesting upper-table change is Apex Legends moving back above Slay the Spire 2 after the launch of Season 29, Overclocked.
Slay the Spire 2 still looks unusually strong for a paid early access deckbuilder. Even after slipping one Steam rank, it stayed fifth on the game-focused table with a 233,369-player weekly peak, helped by a week where Mega Crit also pushed a notable beta update.
R.E.P.O. turns The Cosmetic Update into a top-10 week
R.E.P.O.'s climb is the clearest chart story. Steam's weekly data has it up 21 places, and Gamers Now's stored snapshot comparison shows its weekly peak rising by 71,707 players from the previous collected chart.
The move lines up with v0.4.0, The Cosmetic Update, which went live on May 7. In the official Steam announcement, semiwork said the update added more than 500 cosmetic parts, a refreshed shop, a shop upgrade reroller, Race as a new King of the Losers mode, Semibot Walkies, Scout, Hauler, Defibro, Leaf Blower and three new staffs.
Gamers Now covered R.E.P.O.'s first post-update Steam surge when the live chart put it above 68,000 concurrent players on May 7. The completed weekly chart is stronger evidence that the update was not just a brief evening spike. It carried the game high enough to break into Steam's game-focused top 10 for the week.
Apex Legends also had a visible rebound. Its weekly peak rose by 103,589 players versus the previous stored snapshot, and EA's Overclocked patch notes show why lapsed players had a reason to sample the season: new Legend Axle, Deathbox Respawns, Chain Healing, Vantage and Conduit updates, map rotation changes and a broader matchmaking pass.
Lower-chart movement keeps the week busy
Resident Evil Requiem was the biggest rank riser in the top 100, climbing 71 places to No. 48 with a 23,713-player weekly peak. That finished weekly position followed the same free Leon Must Die Forever update that already pushed Capcom's horror sequel back into a live top-40 reading, which Gamers Now covered in its Resident Evil Requiem Steam chart report.
Gamble With Your Friends kept moving after its launch week, jumping 54 places to No. 36 with a 42,848-player weekly peak. The co-op casino crawler launched on May 1, and its Steam store page frames it as a 1-6 player game where friends use a single bank account, carry one debt and face a five-minute quota inside a casino tower. That is still a niche pitch, but the chart says it is reaching well beyond a quiet indie opening.
Conan Exiles Enhanced was the main new entry, landing at No. 72 with a 44,064-player weekly peak. Funcom's official launch post says the free Steam upgrade moves Conan Exiles to Unreal Engine 5, improves visuals and performance, updates the UI, adds Steam Deck support and lets players travel between The Exiled Lands and The Isle of Siptah if they own the expansion.
Marvel Rivals slips out as Windrose cools
Marvel Rivals is the notable top-10 exit. It was No. 10 on Steam's overall chart last week, which put it eighth on the game-focused table, but it fell to No. 14 this week with an 87,270-player weekly peak. That is not a crisis for a free-to-play hero shooter, but it did open room for R.E.P.O. to enter the upper game list.
Windrose had the sharpest peak drop versus Gamers Now's previous stored snapshot, down 43,593 weekly peak players and down 10 Steam ranks to No. 28. ARC Raiders, Marvel Rivals and Crimson Desert also lost visible peak activity from last week, which makes this chart feel less like a static top-10 repeat and more like a normal correction after several update and launch-window spikes.
The top of Steam is still dominated by the same competitive fixtures. This week's movement is more interesting one layer down: R.E.P.O. proved its update had weeklong weight, Apex Legends got a season bump, Resident Evil Requiem and Gamble With Your Friends kept lower-chart momentum and Marvel Rivals finally slipped out of the game-focused top 10.