Head to head

Anvil Empires vs Guild Wars 2

Anvil Empires

Live

48 – 22k daily

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 44k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2023 · 4 years ago

August 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

48 – 22k

13k – 44k

Estimated players

24.5k7.6%

87.4k1.6%

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Anvil EmpiresGuild Wars 2

Anvil Empires

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~23.4k	Up 6.6%
September 2026	~22k	Up 2.3%
August 2026	~21.5k
July 2026	~21.4k	—

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~86.3k
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.9%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Anvil Empires: 60.8kUp 4.2%
Guild Wars 2: 47.5kDown 0.3%

Anvil Empires currently has about 1.3× as many Discord members as Guild Wars 2 — 60,766 vs 47,529.

Reddit members

Anvil Empires: 7kUp 2.7%
Guild Wars 2: 430kUp 0.4%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 61× as many subreddit members as Anvil Empires — 429,987 vs 6,992.

Twitch viewers

Anvil Empires: 0Down 100%
Guild Wars 2: 1.6kDown 17%

Anvil Empires currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Guild Wars 2 has 1,576.

YouTube subscribers

Anvil Empires: 26.3kUp 0.4%
Guild Wars 2: 219k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 8.3× as many YouTube subscribers as Anvil Empires — 219,000 vs 26,300.

Steam concurrent players

Anvil Empires: —
Guild Wars 2: 5.6kUp 19%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 5,586 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Anvil Empires.

How these estimates are made

Anvil Empires

Anvil Empires is estimated to have 48 – 22k players a day. Around 20k – 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.

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 13k – 44k players a day. Around 510k – 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.