Head to head

Aion vs MapleStory

Aion

Live

81 – 38k daily

MapleStory

Live

24k – 85k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

November 2008 · 18 years ago

April 2003 · 23 years ago

Daily players

81 – 38k

24k – 85k

Estimated players

2.7k0.2%

78.2k2.6%

Available on

Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Side View

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

AionMapleStory

Aion

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~2.7k	Up 1.7%
August 2026	~2.7k	Up 1.6%
July 2026	~2.6k	—

MapleStory

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~79.7k	Down 2.2%
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.

Reddit members

Aion: 10.9kUp 0.6%
MapleStory: 151.2kUp 1.3%

MapleStory currently has about 14× as many subreddit members as Aion — 151,214 vs 10,856.

Twitch viewers

Aion: 514Up 0.4%
MapleStory: 2.7kDown 29%

MapleStory currently has about 5.3× as many live Twitch viewers as Aion — 2,712 vs 514.

YouTube subscribers

Aion: 14.6k
MapleStory: 182k

MapleStory currently has about 12× as many YouTube subscribers as Aion — 182,000 vs 14,600.

Steam concurrent players

Aion: —
MapleStory: 10.7kUp 4.9%

MapleStory currently has 10,719 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Aion.

Discord members

Aion: —
MapleStory: 129.5kUp 1.1%

MapleStory currently has 129,479 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Aion.

How these estimates are made

Aion

Aion is estimated to have 81 – 38k players a day. Around 24k – 2m 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.