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title: "Star Trek Online Player Count: How Many People Play STO?"
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date_published: "2026-09-09"
date_modified: "2026-09-09T05:15:00Z"
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# How many people play Star Trek Online?

Arc Games says **more than 7.7 million people have played Star Trek Online since launch**. That is a lifetime figure, not the number playing now. There is **no official public current total** across PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Steam does publish an official live concurrent-player count for Steam players only.

## Star Trek Online player count at a glance

### Steam players online now

The HTML version of this page displays the current Steam-only concurrent-player count from Valve's official Steam Web API. This static Markdown version does not embed a constantly changing number.

Valve defines the metric as players currently active in the specified app on Steam. It does not represent Arc/Epic PC, PlayStation or Xbox players.

Official metric: [Valve — GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers](https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/webapi/ISteamUserStats?language=english)

### Lifetime players

**7.7M+**

Arc Games said on 27 January 2026 that Star Trek Online had drawn over 7.7 million players since launch. This is cumulative/lifetime, not a live, daily-active or monthly-active count.

Official source: [Arc Games — Jack Emmert Returns As CEO Of Cryptic Studios](https://www.arcgames.com/news/11579658)

### Current all-platform total

**Not publicly disclosed.**

No authoritative combined current figure for PC, PlayStation and Xbox is public.

## How many active players does Star Trek Online have?

No exact current daily- or monthly-active-player figure is publicly available.

GamesBeat reported on 17 February 2026 that **tens of thousands of people were logging in every day**. The article was published around an interview with STO executive producer Thomas Marrone, but it did not provide an exact daily-active-player figure, platform split or counting method. Treat it as a rounded indication of current activity, not a precise population total.

Source: [GamesBeat — Star Trek Online releases Corruption seasonal update on the MMO's 16th anniversary](https://gamesbeat.com/star-trek-online-releases-corruption-seasonal-update-on-the-mmos-16th-anniversary/)

## Which platforms publish live Star Trek Online player counts?

| Where people play | Public live STO count? | What is publicly available |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arc · PC | No | Current Arc-launcher population is not publicly published. |
| Steam · PC | Yes | Valve exposes current Steam concurrency for Star Trek Online. |
| Epic · PC | No | Current Epic STO population is not publicly published. |
| PlayStation | No | No public STO live or active-player total is exposed. |
| Xbox | No | No public STO live or active-player total is exposed. |

**Steam has a public live player count. The other platforms don't.** There is no trustworthy way to add Steam to four missing numbers and produce a current all-platform total.

## Star Trek Online player count over time

These figures use different metrics. Accounts, captains and lifetime players are not interchangeable with current concurrent players.

| Date | Published figure | What it meant |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 2.5m accounts / 3.8m captains | Accounts and player characters, not concurrent players. [Arc Games — 5 Year Anniversary Infographic](https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9065123-star-trek-online-5-year-anniversary-infographic) |
| 2018 | 5.2m players | Cumulative players over STO's lifespan at that point. [MassivelyOP — Cryptic's eight-year infographic](https://massivelyop.com/2018/01/24/star-trek-online-claims-5-2m-players-over-its-lifespan/) |
| 2026 | 7.7m+ players | Players drawn to STO since launch; the newest strong first-party lifetime figure located. [Arc Games — 27 January 2026](https://www.arcgames.com/news/11579658) |

## Why do websites show different STO player counts?

Some sites estimate an all-platform population from public signals. Those figures are models, not direct readings of STO's servers.

Steam concurrency is publicly measurable. Current Arc, Epic, PlayStation and Xbox populations are not publicly disclosed, so a precise combined total from another site is an estimate unless it identifies a new first-party source.

**Metric rule:** live concurrent players, active players, accounts, characters and lifetime players are kept separate throughout this page.