How many people play THE FINALS in 2024? Player count for Season 2 explained

Despite THE FINALS launching to critical acclaim back in December 2023, it’s fair to say that it’s struggled to hold much of its initially captive player count. Debuting on Steam with an all-time peak of 242,000 players, it initially seemed promising that Embark’s latest shooter could be one for the ages.

However, as the months have gone by, the attention span of players has waned as a slow trickle of new content has struggled to keep them engaged. As such, the daily player count of THE FINALS is much less than it used to be - but does that make it a dead game?

THE FINALS monthly player count

Season 2 is well underway in THE FINALS, and the monthly player count is currently sitting at a healthy 2 million players across all platforms [via ActivePlayer.io]. This is an incredibly healthy playerbase, all things considered, with it very easy to find populated matches on all platforms. Of course, that's helped by the inclusion of crossplay.

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However, the monthly player count is trending downwards slightly, with a month-on-month decrease of a few per cent each time. This is likely due to the length of Season 2, which has been ongoing for several months with no sign of Season 3 on the horizon just yet.

THE FINALS daily player count

The daily 24-hour peak is currently sitting at around 13,000 players on Steam (via SteamCharts). The player count tends to dip down to a minimum of 7k players during off-peak times, meaning there are usually always enough players to fill either a casual or ranked match whenever you’d like to play.

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However, this has been trending downward every month since the start of the year. The current player numbers are far from the peak that the game saw when it first launched, and it's going to take a big content update to turn that around.

Season 2 ended on June 5, so Season 3 is set to begin any day now. With a rumoured new map supposedly arriving in the next content update, this should hopefully bring back a few more players to the title.

Is THE FINALS a dead game?

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Ultimately, it’s up to the individual player to decide for themselves whether a game is ‘dead’ or not. If you ask me, a game is alive and thriving as long as:

• There are enough players to host a match without long queue times
• New content is being released for the game

Given that it’s still always possible to find a match in THE FINALS, and that Embark is still releasing regular seasonal content for the game, it’s not quite a ‘dead game’ just yet.

While it can be easy to assume that THE FINALS is a ‘dead game’ due to the massive disparity between its launch player count and now, that’s not really the case. In fact, it’s quite normal for the player count of a game to drop dramatically a few months after release.

What's more, it mostly seems that there is a big disparity between the numbers of players on PC and console. While the daily Steam numbers seem quite low, adding them to the monthly player numbers with console platforms paints a much bigger picture. 

Comparing THE FINALS to other shooters in the same vein, Call of Duty currently has a 24-hour peak of 101k players, around a fifth of what it was during its all-time peak.

Likewise, Battlefield 2042 - a game that’s generally considered 'dead' - currently has a 24-hour peak of 11.5k players. Again, this is around a tenth of the concurrent players that it achieved when it first launched on Steam.

For more helpful THE FINALS guides, keep reading GGRecon. We’ve also covered whether the game has SBMM, all the game modes in the game, and a weapon tier list.