Head to head

Age of Empires: Online vs Scum

Age of Empires: Online

Live

23 – 79 daily

Scum

Live

28k – 98k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2011 · 15 years ago

June 2025 · 1 year ago

Daily players

23 – 79

28k – 98k

Estimated players

3.4k6.3%

44.1k0.7%

Available on

Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Age of Empires: OnlineScum

Age of Empires: Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~3.2k	Up 3.8%
August 2026	~3.1k	Up 17%
July 2026	~2.7k	—

Scum

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~43.4k	Up 0.9%
August 2026	~43k	Up 1.4%
July 2026	~42.4k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Age of Empires: Online: 6Down 45%
Scum: 11.8kUp 7.8%

Scum currently has about 1970× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Age of Empires: Online — 11,821 vs 6.

Discord members

Age of Empires: Online: 9.6k
Scum: 68kUp 0.3%

Scum currently has about 7.1× as many Discord members as Age of Empires: Online — 68,047 vs 9,622.

Reddit members

Age of Empires: Online: 2.6kUp 0.2%
Scum: 52.9kUp 0.3%

Scum currently has about 20× as many subreddit members as Age of Empires: Online — 52,866 vs 2,593.

Twitch viewers

Age of Empires: Online: 0Down 100%
Scum: 403Down 55%

Age of Empires: Online currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Scum has 403.

YouTube subscribers

Age of Empires: Online: 2.8k
Scum: —

Age of Empires: Online currently has 2,820 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Scum.

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.

Scum

Scum is estimated to have 28k – 98k 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.