Steam values are concurrent-player snapshots, collected about every 15 minutes.

Fortnite — Players in match and Players in client are peaks inside official 10-minute buckets. A peak is not a Steam snapshot.

Each series keeps its original timestamps. Empty intervals are not interpolated, and longer periods keep the peak observation’s own timestamp.

Absolute mode plots raw player counts on one shared axis. Indexed mode sets each series to 100 at its first positive value in the period. It compares relative change only, not audience size. A series with no positive value is left off the index.

On 3 Nov 2026 at 23:15 UTC, GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers returned player_count 0 for Counter-Strike 2 and seven other titles. The Steam collection run succeeded, 30 of 30, so this is not a missed run and not a bucketing artefact. Counter-Strike 2 read 647,189 at 23:00 UTC and 495,983 at 23:30 UTC. An isolated Steam reading of exactly 0 between two positive readings is omitted and the line breaks across the gap.

Each line is one island’s daily peak. Battle Royale, Reload, Fortnite OG, the two LEGO Fortnite islands and the two Fortnite Festival stages are never added together.

Unique players in the table are a separate daily count. They are not summed across experiences and they are not plotted on the chart.

A day bucket starts at 00:00 UTC. The 24-hour filter can contain one day or none. Missing days stay empty.

Indexed mode, when selected, rebases each island to 100 at its first positive daily peak. It does not compare the size of the islands.