Head to head

Apex Legends vs Star Citizen

Apex Legends

Released

~1.1m daily · 770k – 1.5m

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Star Citizen

Released

~10k daily · 2.3k – 30k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

VerdictApex Legends has ~110× Star Citizen's daily players (~1.1m vs ~10k, as of Nov 9, 2026). Star Citizen's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

Released

February 2019 · 8 years ago

August 2013 · 13 years ago

Est. daily players

~1.1m770k – 1.5mMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

~10k2.3k – 30kLow confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Available on

Nintendo
PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

Linux
Windows

Platforms

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Apex LegendsStar Citizen

Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.

Steam concurrent players

Apex Legends: 215.7kUp 229% past week
Star Citizen: —

Apex Legends currently has 215,665 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Star Citizen.

Discord members

Apex Legends: 888.5k
Star Citizen: 161.3k

Apex Legends currently has about 5.5× as many Discord members as Star Citizen — 888,525 vs 161,301.

Reddit members

Apex Legends: 3.1m
Star Citizen: 535.7k

Apex Legends currently has about 5.7× as many subreddit members as Star Citizen — 3,055,428 vs 535,662.

Twitch viewers

Apex Legends: 27.8kUp 24% past week
Star Citizen: 2.7kDown 2.3% past week

Apex Legends currently has about 10× as many live Twitch viewers as Star Citizen — 27,819 vs 2,660.

YouTube subscribers

Apex Legends: 2.7m
Star Citizen: 577k

Apex Legends currently has about 4.7× as many YouTube subscribers as Star Citizen — 2,740,000 vs 577,000.

How these estimates are made

Apex Legends

We estimate that about 1,100,000 people play Apex Legends on a typical day (most likely between 770,000 and 1,500,000), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 17,000,000 accounts (between 13,000,000 and 22,000,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: medium — Steam covers part of the player base, or several community signals agree.

Star Citizen

We estimate that about 10,000 people play Star Citizen on a typical day (most likely between 2,300 and 30,000), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 900,000 accounts (between 310,000 and 2,100,000) have played it at some point. Star Citizen publishes no Steam player data, so the estimate is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. Confidence: low — a community-size model, not a measurement.

How we estimate