At certain times of the day the game is awfully empty, probably because of the dreadful start the game had which caused most people to not buy the game/get a refund. Try playing during the evening in EU or US time the games pretty populated then. However now the proxies aren't working so we're back where we were a month ago with tons of people being unable to connect, so there will probably be even less games.

There are 6 custom game lobbies, one other person looking for a Skirmish match and 5 people looking for a Pantheon match.

There are currently 25 custom games in progress including lobbies according to the impulse client. (Although considering how buggy the entire client is I'm not entirely sure if it's even showing a current list.)

While I realise there are people in the middle of games too this isn't really "great".

I really enjoy this game and would like for it to be populated and working great, but telling a new player that the game is doing great feels like a flat-out lie.

It's 5:30 to 8:30 in the morning in the US where the majority of players are located right now. So no, there aren't going to be a ton of games at this time of day. In a few weeks when the internation product has been picked up by more people hopefully there will be more games at less peak times. Until then, I still dont see a handful of cutom games at the worst time of the day to be that bad. And during evening hours in the US the number of custom games is at like 30 or more.

Fanboy propaganda aside, lets face it - the online game is broke for many people. The international people are going to have the same litany of problems everyone else is experiencing. I hope word of mouth doesn't kill this game before the "PATCH". Problem is most of the other patches were supposed to fix the online game and here we are. There will be a small and dwindling online community if online is not fixed very soon. 

Demigod Server Stats

Not sure what people's agenda is to say that no one is playing..   Last night my biggest problem was clicking into a game before it filled up, so it seems to me there are plenty of people playing.  Maybe they think all those players are just the fanboys.

I have never had a problem with any other game online, infact i'm actually DMZ atm and i still fail to connect to people some times, i hope this patch sovles everything....

I have a feeling it won't tho.

As others have pointed out, the multiplayer population of Demigod consistently gone up since release.

In addition, while connectivity is not perfect, it does work for the vast majority of people now and more updates are in development.

One of the big differences between Demigod and "other games" that are p2p (i.e. other RTSs) is that in other games, people aren't allowed in the lobby until they've connected to everyone in the lobby and you can't see people who are trying to join.

I challenge any serious RTS player here to deny they've not routinely playing an RTS online where they've sat in a lobby with a couple of people wondering why more people aren't joining where they leave the game, find another game that quickily fills up. 

The difference: In Demigod, people are allowed to join in the lobby if they connect to the host and then the host can decide who to boot.  Obviously we could make it work like other games where people simply can't get into the lobby and eliminate the connection progress dialog so you can't see people joining.