Head to head

AQ First Contact vs The Cycle

AQ First Contact

Live

1 – 590 daily

The Cycle

Live

13 – 44 daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

September 2019 · 7 years ago

Daily players

1 – 590

13 – 44

Estimated players

910.2%

6.9k

Available on

Windows
Android
iOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

AQ First ContactThe Cycle

AQ First Contact

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~85	Down 1.2%
October 2026	~86	Up 1.2%
September 2026	~85	Down 6.6%
August 2026	~91	Down 2.2%
July 2026	~93	—

The Cycle

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~6.9k
October 2026	~6.9k
September 2026	~6.9k
August 2026	~6.9k
July 2026	~6.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

AQ First Contact: 275Down 1.4%
The Cycle: —

AQ First Contact currently has 275 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for The Cycle.

Steam concurrent players

AQ First Contact: —
The Cycle: 4Up 100%

The Cycle currently has 4 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.

Reddit members

AQ First Contact: —
The Cycle: 6.1k

The Cycle currently has 6,051 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.

Twitch viewers

AQ First Contact: —
The Cycle: 0

The Cycle currently has 0 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.

YouTube subscribers

AQ First Contact: —
The Cycle: 17.3k

The Cycle currently has 17,300 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 – 590 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.

The Cycle

The Cycle is estimated to have 13 – 44 players a day. Around 720k – 2m 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.