In 2023, the average age of the leading free-to-play (F2P) games based on average concurrent users on PC gaming platform Steam was seven years, with some titles being older than a decade. Team Fortress 2 was first released 17 years ago, making it the oldest top F2P title based on user engagement.
Average age of leading free-to-play PC video games on Steam in 2023
(in years)
¹ CS:GO release date. CS2 was released in 2023, but followed from the same Steam link and is a close enough successor to be counted as the same game
² Original CoD series launched in 2003. The FtP version called Warzone was released in 2020
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