Head to head

Age of Empires: Online vs Sky: Children of the Light

Age of Empires: Online

Live

25 – 88 daily

Sky: Children of the Light

Live

11k – 40k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2011 · 15 years ago

July 2019 · 7 years ago

Daily players

25 – 88

11k – 40k

Estimated players

3k4.3%

203.4k0.3%

Available on

Windows

Windows
Android
iOS
PlayStation
Nintendo

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Age of Empires: OnlineSky: Children of the Light

Age of Empires: Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~3.1k	Up 18%
July 2026	~2.7k	—

Sky: Children of the Light

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~203.4k	Up 16%
July 2026	~175.2k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Age of Empires: Online: 8Down 11%
Sky: Children of the Light: 4.2kDown 25%

Sky: Children of the Light currently has about 529× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Age of Empires: Online — 4,228 vs 8.

Discord members

Age of Empires: Online: 9.6k
Sky: Children of the Light: 650.5k

Sky: Children of the Light currently has about 68× as many Discord members as Age of Empires: Online — 650,473 vs 9,619.

Reddit members

Age of Empires: Online: 2.6k
Sky: Children of the Light: 66.9kUp 0.4%

Sky: Children of the Light currently has about 26× as many subreddit members as Age of Empires: Online — 66,943 vs 2,590.

Twitch viewers

Age of Empires: Online: 0Down 100%
Sky: Children of the Light: 73Down 74%

Age of Empires: Online currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Sky: Children of the Light has 73.

YouTube subscribers

Age of Empires: Online: 2.8k
Sky: Children of the Light: 257kUp 0.4%

Sky: Children of the Light currently has about 91× as many YouTube subscribers as Age of Empires: Online — 257,000 vs 2,820.

How these estimates are made

Age of Empires: Online

Age of Empires: Online is estimated to have 25 – 88 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.

Sky: Children of the Light

Sky: Children of the Light is estimated to have 11k – 40k players a day. Around 430k – 1m 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.