Head to head
AQ First Contact vs Elite: Dangerous
Side by side
Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Daily players
Estimated players
Available on
- Windows
- Android
- iOS
- Windows
- macOS
- PlayStation
- Xbox
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 | — |
Elite: Dangerous
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | ~90.7k | Up 0.5% |
| August 2026 | ~90.2k | |
| July 2026 | ~90.3k | — |
Community breakdown
Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.
Discord members
- AQ First Contact
- 280Up 0.4%
- Elite: Dangerous
- 70.9kUp 0.6%
Elite: Dangerous currently has about 253× as many Discord members as AQ First Contact — 70,907 vs 280.
Steam concurrent players
- AQ First Contact
- —
- Elite: Dangerous
- 5.9kUp 12%
Elite: Dangerous currently has 5,928 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.
Reddit members
- AQ First Contact
- —
- Elite: Dangerous
- 389.2kUp 0.4%
Elite: Dangerous currently has 389,234 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.
Twitch viewers
- AQ First Contact
- —
- Elite: Dangerous
- 196Down 55%
Elite: Dangerous currently has 196 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.
YouTube subscribers
- AQ First Contact
- —
- Elite: Dangerous
- 171k
Elite: Dangerous currently has 171,000 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 – 500 players a day. Around 980 – 98k 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.
Elite: Dangerous
Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 15k – 52k 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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