Dota 2’s Diretide event fuels the game’s first player count surge since April

If you're a MOBA games fan, you'll no doubtfulness personify aware that Dota 2's Diretide event has returned to Valve's statute title for the first time in a whopping seven long time. Aside from oodles of Halloween-themed fun for players to sink their gnashers into, it looks like the mode's brought back something other to the game – a lot of players.

Head to Steam clean Charts (thanks, Dot Esports!) and you'll see the Dota 2 player count has up significantly over the yesteryear month – notably, for the prime time since Apr 2020, short after which the multiplayer game's 2020 battle pass was launched. In April of this year, Dota 2's medium and flower participant counts leapt up from 437k and 744k the calendar month before to 493k and 801k, severally. Since then, however, the game's players receive been ebb out, with the tip count dropping to 666k in August, and a very alike 670k in September – a drop of around 131k over several months.

However, Steamer Charts records that some the norm and peak player counts undergo seen a notable increase in the last 30 years – the premier since April (the pardonable peak figure come up in September notwithstanding).

A of writing, Dota 2's average player count over the past month has risen to 411k and the bloom count has impinge on 723k. That's an increase of around 2.3k players on average and impartial under 53k at peak compared to September's numbers racket.

The Dota 2 Diretide event might take launched (righteous in time) for Halloween, but it runs until December 22, so perhaps we'll date those figures continue at a steady pace or even prove over again ahead the year's retired. Looks like we'll have to wait and insure how things tire.

If you're yet to bog down in yourself, or are keen to gobble up up some gameplay tips like the candy-wishful Roshan himself, DO take a deal our Dota 2 Diretide guide for some pointers.