Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs Black Squad

Ark: Survival Ascended

Live

75k – 260k daily

Black Squad

Live

810 – 3k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

July 2017 · 9 years ago

Daily players

75k – 260k

810 – 3k

Estimated players

291.1k2.1%

9.8k

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival AscendedBlack Squad

Ark: Survival Ascended

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~284.9k	Down 1.8%
September 2026	~290.2k	Down 1.5%
August 2026	~294.6k	Down 0.5%
July 2026	~296.1k	—

Black Squad

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~9.8k	Down 0.3%
September 2026	~9.8k	Down 0.1%
August 2026	~9.8k	Up 0.5%
July 2026	~9.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Ascended: 30.8kUp 12%
Black Squad: 253Down 10.0%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 122× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Black Squad — 30,793 vs 253.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 391.2kDown 0.2%
Black Squad: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 391,199 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Black Squad.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 327.8kUp 0.1%
Black Squad: 2.8k

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 117× as many subreddit members as Black Squad — 327,837 vs 2,811.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.7kDown 34%
Black Squad: 2Up 100%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 872× as many live Twitch viewers as Black Squad — 1,744 vs 2.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
Black Squad: 12.2k

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 98× as many YouTube subscribers as Black Squad — 1,200,000 vs 12,200.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

Ark: Survival Ascended is estimated to have 75k – 260k 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.

Black Squad

Black Squad is estimated to have 810 – 3k players a day. Around 1m – 3m 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.