Mobile game · 2012

Max Payne

Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the edge, fighting to clear his name while struggling to uncover the truth about his slain family amongst a myriad of plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's worst blizzard. The groundbreaking original cinematic action-shooter, Max Payne introduced the concept of Bullet Time in videogames. Through its stylish slow-motion gunplay combined with a dark and twisted story, Max Payne redefined the action-shooter genre.

Estimated daily players

~3,2000.0%

Range 320–19K

Estimated total players

~65,0000.0%

Range 32K–130K

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Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Apr 12, 2012Android iOSPEGI AOGRAC 15ESRB RPACB MA15+USK 18

Shooter Action Thriller

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What the estimate rests on

Steam 51%
App Store 39%
Twitch 9.8%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Max Payne, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on App Store, Steam, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~3,200

0.0%

Range 320 – 19K

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~65,000

0.0%

Range 32K – 130K

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Estimated daily players over time

from live counts

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Max Payne per calendar month, newest first
Month	Estimated total players	Change
August 2026	~98,000	—

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Max Payne where it is sold.

App Store ratings

1,083

0.0%

Average rating: 4.4

Steam players in game

Reviews: 15,761

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Community signals

How many people gather around Max Payne outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Twitch viewers

Live channels: 1

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Not tracked for Max Payne: Google Play, Discord, Reddit, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

In December 2001, as New York City is enduring the tail end of the worst snow blizzard in the history of the city, Max Payne, a renegade DEA agent and former NYPD detective, is standing at the top of a skyscraper with a sniper rifle in his hands, smiling, as police units arrive on the scene to arrest him. He then experiences flashbacks from three years ago and the last two days he experienced. Three years earlier, on August 22nd 1998, Max was working as a regular NYPD detective, having just finished his day's work. His longtime friend and DEA agent, Alex Balder, invites him to transfer into the DEA, but Max declines the offer, wanting to focus on his full-time life with his wife, Michelle, and their newborn daughter, Rose. As he returns to his house in New Jersey, he finds that a trio of junkies had broken into his house, all addicted on a brand new designer drug, Valkyr. Max receives a call from a mysterious woman who seems pleased at the trouble in the house and refuses to call for help. Max rushes to aid his family and kill the junkies, but is too late as he finds his wife shot dead, and his daughter slaughtered. After his family's funeral, Payne accepts Alex's offer, and transfers to the DEA at his own request to stop the spreading of the drugs.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Max Payne?

We estimate that about 65,000 people have played Max Payne — plausibly between 32K and 130K. Around 3,200 of them play on a given day, in a range of 320 and 19K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on App Store, Steam and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Max Payne still active?

Yes. Max Payne is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Max Payne player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

How big is the Max Payne Twitch community?

Max Payne has 1 viewers on Twitch, as of August 9, 2026.

When was Max Payne released?

Max Payne was released on April 12, 2012 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Max Payne available on?

Max Payne is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from App Store (iPhone).

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