Head to head

Aether Story vs MapleStory

Aether Story

TBA

MapleStory

Live

20k – 69k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

UNKNOWN

ACTIVE

Released

To be announced

April 2003 · 23 years ago

Daily players

No population data

20k – 69k

Estimated players

2182.2%

78.5k2.8%

Available on

Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Side View

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Aether StoryMapleStory

Aether Story

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~224	Down 0.9%
September 2026	~226	Down 0.4%
August 2026	~227	Down 2.2%
July 2026	~232	—

MapleStory

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~79.1k	Down 0.2%
September 2026	~79.3k	Down 2.7%
August 2026	~81.5k	Down 0.2%
July 2026	~81.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Aether Story: 766Up 0.5%
MapleStory: 130.1kUp 0.7%

MapleStory currently has about 170× as many Discord members as Aether Story — 130,142 vs 766.

Reddit members

Aether Story: 31
MapleStory: 151.8kUp 1.2%

MapleStory currently has about 4895× as many subreddit members as Aether Story — 151,759 vs 31.

YouTube subscribers

Aether Story: 191
MapleStory: 183kUp 0.5%

MapleStory currently has about 958× as many YouTube subscribers as Aether Story — 183,000 vs 191.

Steam concurrent players

Aether Story: —
MapleStory: 7.6kDown 23%

MapleStory currently has 7,614 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Aether Story.

Twitch viewers

Aether Story: —
MapleStory: 1.2kDown 52%

MapleStory currently has 1,176 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Aether Story.

How these estimates are made

Aether Story

Aether Story is estimated to have 1 – 470 players a day. Around 1k – 100k 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.

MapleStory

MapleStory is estimated to have 20k – 69k players a day. Around 290k – 740k 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.