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VALORANT Player Count Tracker: How Many People Play VALORANT in 2024?

By Jessica Wilkins

Even in its third year, VALORANT has maintained its popularity. If you’re curious about how many people play VALORANT in 2024, this article has you covered.

Riot Games, popularly known as the developer of League of Legends, launched their version of the Hero-based competitive shooter titled VALORANT in 2020. Since its release, VALORANT has attracted a large number of players from all over the world.

The developer’s approach of making the game free to play and beginner friendly than its counterparts also helped to attract a huge number of players. Moreover, Riot Games constantly updates the game, so the game meta keeps changing. This helps the game to feel afresh and keeps the player base gradually increasing.

Since its beta launch, VALORANT has steadily maintained its player base. Even in 2023, it is one of the most popular games among people. So, let’s have a look at the player count of VALORANT in 2023.

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VALORANT Player Count in January 2024

The exact player count of VALORANT is difficult to figure out as Riot Games doesn’t publish the data to the mass audience. But according to tracker.gg a total number of 17.102 Million people played VALORANT in December 2023.

As January month is ongoing, it is impossible to measure this month’s overall player count. However, on September 5, VALORANT has already seen over 10 million players. As a result, the player count is easily expected to grow a lot by the end of September compared to last month.

According to tracker.gg, VALORANT had seen a daily average player count of 551,687 for the month of December 2023. By the end of the month, it succeeded in reaching up to 17,102,209. However, this was 3.9 percent higher than the peak player count of the previous months.

VALORANT Player Count in Previous Months

Here, we will list a chart to provide you with estimated data on how the player count of VALORANT has changed during the previous months. The chart will include the number of total players and an average daily player count for the month as well as the gain achieved compared to previous months from May 2023 to January 2024.

DatePlayers CountGainDaily Average
January 20244,001,286
December 202317,102,299+635,928551,687
Nobember 202316,466,371-810,529548,879
October 202317,276,900-1,222,156557,319
September 202318,499,056-1,395,444616,635
August 202319,894,500-520,251641,758
July 202320,414,751+347,922658,540
June 202320,066,829+231,720668,894
May 202319,835,109-264,966639,842

UPDATE: Player count data updated till January 1, 2024

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