Head to head
AQ First Contact vs Ark: Survival Ascended
Side by side
Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Daily players
Estimated players
Available on
- Windows
- Android
- iOS
- Windows
- PlayStation
Player activity
Smoothed estimated players over time.
AQ First Contact
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | ~85 | Down 6.6% |
| August 2026 | ~91 | Down 2.2% |
| July 2026 | ~93 | — |
Ark: Survival Ascended
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | ~292.8k | Down 0.6% |
| August 2026 | ~294.6k | Down 0.5% |
| July 2026 | ~296.1k | — |
Community breakdown
Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.
Discord members
- AQ First Contact
- 281Down 11%
- Ark: Survival Ascended
- 391.9k
Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 1395× as many Discord members as AQ First Contact — 391,895 vs 281.
Steam concurrent players
- AQ First Contact
- —
- Ark: Survival Ascended
- 23.4kDown 25%
Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 23,434 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.
Reddit members
- AQ First Contact
- —
- Ark: Survival Ascended
- 327.5kUp 0.1%
Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 327,518 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.
Twitch viewers
- AQ First Contact
- —
- Ark: Survival Ascended
- 927Down 57%
Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 927 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.
YouTube subscribers
- AQ First Contact
- —
- Ark: Survival Ascended
- 1.2m
Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 1,200,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.
How these estimates are made
AQ First Contact
AQ First Contact is estimated to have 1 – 560 players a day. Around 1k – 110k 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.
Ark: Survival Ascended
Ark: Survival Ascended is estimated to have 59k – 210k 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.
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