Head to head

2 Cooks 1 Mess vs Ark: Survival Ascended

2 Cooks 1 Mess

Live

3 – 9 daily

Ark: Survival Ascended

Live

80k – 280k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2026 · 4 months ago

October 2023 · 3 years ago

Daily players

3 – 9

80k – 280k

Estimated players

1.5k2.6%

303.4k4.9%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

2 Cooks 1 MessArk: Survival Ascended

2 Cooks 1 Mess

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~1.5k	Down 0.3%
July 2026	~1.5k	—

Ark: Survival Ascended

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~294k	Down 0.7%
July 2026	~296.1k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Steam concurrent players

2 Cooks 1 Mess: 1Down 50%
Ark: Survival Ascended: 25.9kDown 20%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 25921× as many peak concurrent Steam players as 2 Cooks 1 Mess — 25,921 vs 1.

Discord members

2 Cooks 1 Mess: 6.7kDown 0.5%
Ark: Survival Ascended: 391.8k

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 59× as many Discord members as 2 Cooks 1 Mess — 391,781 vs 6,696.

Twitch viewers

2 Cooks 1 Mess: 0
Ark: Survival Ascended: 35.4kUp 1645%

2 Cooks 1 Mess currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Ark: Survival Ascended has 35,427.

Reddit members

2 Cooks 1 Mess: —
Ark: Survival Ascended: 327.2kUp 0.2%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 327,161 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for 2 Cooks 1 Mess.

YouTube subscribers

2 Cooks 1 Mess: —
Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 1,200,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for 2 Cooks 1 Mess.

How these estimates are made

2 Cooks 1 Mess

2 Cooks 1 Mess is estimated to have 3 – 9 players a day. Around 1k – 3k accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.

Ark: Survival Ascended

Ark: Survival Ascended is estimated to have 80k – 280k players a day. Around 2m – 4m accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.