Valorant has hit 14 million monthly active players after a year.
Valorant has hit 14 million monthly active players after a year.
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Valorant reaches 14M active players and 500M games played

Riot Games said that its first-person shooter Valorant has reached 14 million monthly active PC players and half a billion games played in its first year. And Los Angeles-based Riot Games said it will expand the franchise to mobile.

The numbers mean that 14 million players around the world log on to play the free-to-play game each month. The game launched on June 2, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.