How many people are playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein right now?

48 people are playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein on Steam right now, making it the 2767th most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 48 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is Return to Castle Wolfenstein's all-time peak player count?

Return to Castle Wolfenstein's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 550, reached in May 2014.

Is Return to Castle Wolfenstein good? What do Steam reviews say?

92% of 8,065 Steam user reviews are positive (Very Positive).

How much does Return to Castle Wolfenstein cost on Steam?

Return to Castle Wolfenstein costs $4.99 on Steam (US).

Does Return to Castle Wolfenstein work on Steam Deck?

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is Playable on Steam Deck (with small issues), according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

by Gray Matter Studios · published by Bethesda Softworks · Released Aug 3, 2007

Steam Deck PlayableLinux & Deck: Gold

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Players now

#2,767

▼ 11.1%vs 24h ago · updates every minute

Review score

92% positive

Very Positive8,065 reviews

Owners (est.)2M–5M

24h peak

Highest seen550

May 201412.5 years ago

Price on Steam

$4.99

Lowest ever $4.99 Oct 2026

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Players -11.1% in the last 24 hoursUpdated 21:53 UTC · tracking since 2012-07-01

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Reviews

92% positive of 8,065 · Very Positive · Live from Steam

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Steam Deck

Works, but may need extra effort. Results from Valve's own testing.

Steam Deck Playable

!Default controller config not fully functional
!Text input does not automatically invokes keyboard
!Native resolution not supported
✓Controller glyphs match deck device
✓Interface text is legible
✓Default configuration is performant

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Patches & builds

Every build released on Steam for this game since we started tracking it, with the developer's patch notes. Updated within minutes of each new build.

Nov 1, 2026, 6:14 AM UTC
Build 3746the current build when we started tracking813 MB on Windows

Patch notes

Jul 1, 2024
Classic FPS game Return to Castle Wolfenstein is suddenly even better
2001 was an unusual year for FPS games. Corridor shooters of the kind pioneered by Doom, Quake, and the original Half-Life seemed to leave vogue, and instead it was Halo, its larger-scale battlefields, and its heightened sense of 'realism' that came to define …
Jan 25, 2024
One of the greatest FPS games ever returns with a huge new VR port
It has been twenty-three years since Return to Castle Wolfenstein arrived on the scene and left its mark on multiplayer FPS game design forever. Prestigious as its online component is, its oft-underappreciated single player campaign remains a fantastic time an…
Jun 16, 2023
Get Bethesda's best games for dirt cheap ahead of Starfield
The Elder Scrolls , Doom, Fallout, Dishonored, Wolfenstein, Quake, The Evil Within - you name it, Bethesda has some of the best PC games in its catalog, and you can get most of them for next to nothing right now thanks to a sale with up to 85% off the likes of…
Jun 11, 2022
Can't wait for Wolfenstein 3? RTCW is getting ray tracing
The Xbox Bethesda showcase is sure to bring some Starfield news please , but many fans (including us) are hoping to finally get a Wolfenstein 3 reveal. Even if it does, it'll likely still be a long way off, but what might ease the wait is a Return to Castle Wo…
Nov 20, 2021
Fans have recreated Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory's cut single-player campaign
A modder has taken aim at recreating the long-lost Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory single-player campaign as part of the game's 20th-anniversary celebration. The campaign expansion, which was supposed to come out in 2003, has been fully reimagine…
Sep 21, 2020
Return to Castle Wolfenstein gets an overhaul mod next month
Fans have been hard at work overhauling just about everything in Return to Castle Wolfenstein . The overhaul mod is called RealRTCW , and it comes with a new renderer, expanded arsenal, rebalanced guns, and host of improvements to models, textures, and sounds.…

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History

What changed on Steam for this game since we started following it: prices and sales, builds, name, release date and review score.

Review score: 92% on 2026-11-01 → 92% today (8,065 reviews)

Oct 31, 2026Price$4.99

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