Steam reviews

Very Positive

91% of 9,255 reviews

Critic scores

Metacritic

Generally favorable

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HALO WARS: DEFINITIVE EDITION

Halo Wars: Definitive Edition has 126 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 126 and its all-time peak is 126. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Ensemble Studios, Behaviour Interactive, 343 IndustriesPUB · Xbox Game Studios2017

Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.

Niche but breathing. Best chance to find others at peak hours.
Currently at 100% of the all-time peak of 126 players.
Last updated 4 months ago: Halo Franchise Sale & Halo: Campaign Evolved Wishlist.

Playing now

126

24h peak

126

24h change

▲ 0.0%

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PREVIOUS 24 HOURS

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GALLERY & TRAILERS

1 / 10

ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

126

24h peak

126

All-time

126

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

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Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo

No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.