Summary
Pokemon Goremains a powerhouse among mobile gamers, keeping players engaged with monthly events, new releases, holiday promotions, and more. With more than a thousand different Pokemon available in the game thanks to different costumes, forms, and variants
After eight years of being active, there are still tons of players running around cities, parks, and neighborhoods, trying to hunt down their favorite little critters and taking down nearby raids. Despite still being popular among players, it can be a little difficult to track down exactly how many players are still active in the monster collecting game.
How Many Pokemon Go Players Were There At Its Peak?
The Halcion Days Of Old Pokemon
It’s hard to argue that Pokemon Go hasn’t dipped in popularity over the years. At its peak when the mobile game was first released,Pokemon Go saw more than 232 million players during its first yearand has slowly lost players over time. That doesn’t mean the game isn’t still immensely popular or isn’t worth playing.
With new features added to the game all the time, like new Community Days,Spotlight Hours, and constantly changing raid schedules, Pokemon Go tries to keep the game fresh and new so that players are rarely bored for too long.
The latest generation of Pokemon to be introduced in the game is Gen 9, bringing with it fan favorites like Clodsire, Smoliv, Gimmighoul, and all three starters from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Quaxly, Fuecoco, and Sprigatito, along with their evolutionary lines.
One of the more recent events tokeep players active in the gamewas the tie-in event withthe release of Pokemon Horizons: The Series. This Celebration Eventran for almost a whole week, giving players the chance to catch popular Pokemon from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet like Charcadet and its two branching evolutions, Ceruledge and Armarogue.
You could even catch a special Pikachu based on Captain Pikachu, Friede’s partner Pokemon, and the namesake of the Rising Volt Tacklers since that’s his favorite move. Pikachus in the wild could be found wearing Cap’s signature hat or you could hunt it down in raids during the event.
As more mainline Pokemon games are released and more Pokemon-related content is released, you can bet there is going to be a steady stream of content for you to enjoy as the game nears its first decade active.
How Many Pokemon Go Players Are There Now?
Count Yourself Among Millions
If you’re logging in every day on your way to school or work, or making sure to take your Buddy Pokemon out on walks with your real-world pets, you can count yourself among the roughly81 millionactive players that log in month after month.
The trouble with games like Pokemon Go is that mobile games rarely divulge their internal stats, so anyone looking to dig a little deeper into the game’s player count has to rely on third-party tracking software. One of these sites,activeplayer.io, sets the average number of monthly players for March 2024 as 81,358,328.
There is some room for error with this figure, as it isn’t taken directly from developer Niantic, so there is going to be some variance between what the true number of players is, but it is still a good estimate as to the popularity of the game.
81,358,328
21,966,748
87,054,588
23,504,739
88,642,638
20,387,807
84,309,148
15,422,175
82,945,023
12,856,479
78,397,943
12,151,681
75,820,061
11,752,109
77,844,005
12,065,821
79,270,881
12,286,987
79,669,227
12,348,730
80,255,089
12,439,539
79,417,207
12,309,667
81,218,150
12,588,813
As you can see from the above table, the average number of players for the past year has remained fairly consistent, hanging around the high 70 million to low 80 million players.
Over the past year, most players were active in January 2024, with more than 88 million monthly active players in the month. Conversely, September 2023 was the worst month for the game according to available data, with 75 million active players in the month, which is still a ton of players running around trying to capture all their favorite Pokemon by exploring the wilds of their neighborhoods and local raids.
What Does The Future Of Pokemon Go Hold?
All New Friends To Make Along The Way
2024 is sure to bring some exciting things to the game, with plenty of Pokemon from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet still waiting to make their debut, lots of events planned, and other promotional tie-ins that are yet to be announced.
There are a few global events planned for Pokemon Go, including Pokemon GO Fests in Sendai in May, Madrid in June, New York City in July, and finally, a global Pokemon GO Fest a week after the New York event in July. The Global event looks to be particularly exciting if you’re an active player, since it will feature the Prism Pokemon Necrozma in raids for the first time in the game’s history.
You can be sure that as more Pokemon-related games, anime, crossovers, and more are announced, there will be some related Pokemon Go content to keep the game fresh. With the recently announced Pokemon Legends: Z-A coming to the Switch in 2025, there are bound to be new regional forms to collect, branching evolutions, and special variant forms to be released in Pokemon Go as well.
