Head to head

Age of Empires: Online vs ArcheAge

Age of Empires: Online

Live

23 – 79 daily

ArcheAge

Live

8 – 26 daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2011 · 15 years ago

January 2013 · 14 years ago

Daily players

23 – 79

8 – 26

Estimated players

3k0.1%

5.6k0.2%

Available on

Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Age of Empires: OnlineArcheAge

Age of Empires: Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~3.2k	Up 3.7%
August 2026	~3.1k	Up 17%
July 2026	~2.7k	—

ArcheAge

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~5.7k	Up 1.6%
August 2026	~5.6k	Up 2.7%
July 2026	~5.5k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Age of Empires: Online: 8Down 20%
ArcheAge: 4

Age of Empires: Online currently has about 2× as many peak concurrent Steam players as ArcheAge — 8 vs 4.

Discord members

Age of Empires: Online: 9.6kUp 0.2%
ArcheAge: —

Age of Empires: Online currently has 9,627 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for ArcheAge.

Reddit members

Age of Empires: Online: 2.6kUp 0.2%
ArcheAge: 41.8kUp 0.2%

ArcheAge currently has about 16× as many subreddit members as Age of Empires: Online — 41,821 vs 2,594.

Twitch viewers

Age of Empires: Online: 3Up 50%
ArcheAge: 234Up 333%

ArcheAge currently has about 78× as many live Twitch viewers as Age of Empires: Online — 234 vs 3.

YouTube subscribers

Age of Empires: Online: 2.8kUp 0.4%
ArcheAge: 6.9kDown 0.1%

ArcheAge currently has about 2.4× as many YouTube subscribers as Age of Empires: Online — 6,930 vs 2,830.

How these estimates are made

Age of Empires: Online

Age of Empires: Online is estimated to have 23 – 79 players a day. Around 17k – 44k 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.

ArcheAge

ArcheAge is estimated to have 8 – 26 players a day. Around 150k – 390k 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.