Steam's second most-played game right now is reportedly a bot-filled marketplace that can get you banned

An edited image of the Medic from Team Fortress 2 looking at a computer, face palming. The three screens, from right to left, show Task Bar Hero, Banana, and Bongo Cat.

If you check in with Steam's player population data as much as I do, then you'll know it's pretty common to see an idle game towards the top. Bongo Cat has been sitting up there for basically a year. Banana holds the title of tenth-highest all-time concurrent player peak on Steam.

Out with the old, and in with the new, as Task Bar Hero launched at the end of May and reached a height of roughly 450,000 concurrent players overnight. Just this weekend, it hit a new all-time peak of 526,596 concurrent players. That puts it below Counter-Strike 2, but above the likes of Dota 2, PUBG, and Path of Exile 2.