Head to head

A Tale in the Desert vs Aion

A Tale in the Desert

Live

1 – 470 daily

Aion

Live

71 – 33k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

February 2003 · 24 years ago

November 2008 · 18 years ago

Daily players

1 – 470

71 – 33k

Estimated players

2.6k2.3%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

A Tale in the DesertAion

A Tale in the Desert

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~21
August 2026	~21	Up 17%
July 2026	~18	—

Aion

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~2.7k	Up 1.1%
August 2026	~2.7k	Up 1.6%
July 2026	~2.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

A Tale in the Desert: 187
Aion: 10.9kUp 0.6%

Aion currently has about 58× as many subreddit members as A Tale in the Desert — 10,873 vs 187.

YouTube subscribers

A Tale in the Desert: 26
Aion: 14.6k

Aion currently has about 562× as many YouTube subscribers as A Tale in the Desert — 14,600 vs 26.

Twitch viewers

A Tale in the Desert: —
Aion: 627Up 21%

Aion currently has 627 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for A Tale in the Desert.

How these estimates are made

A Tale in the Desert

A Tale in the Desert is estimated to have 1 – 470 players a day. Around 1k – 110k accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.