Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs Blade & Soul

Ark: Survival Ascended

Live

59k – 210k daily

Blade & Soul

Live

35 – 16k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

June 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

59k – 210k

35 – 16k

Estimated players

293.5k3.7%

11.5k

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival AscendedBlade & Soul

Ark: Survival Ascended

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~292.6k	Down 0.7%
August 2026	~294.6k	Down 0.5%
July 2026	~296.1k	—

Blade & Soul

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~11.5k
August 2026	~11.5k
July 2026	~11.5k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Ascended: 16.3kDown 36%
Blade & Soul: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 16,336 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 391.9k
Blade & Soul: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 391,895 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 327.5kUp 0.1%
Blade & Soul: 49.2k

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 6.7× as many subreddit members as Blade & Soul — 327,526 vs 49,154.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1kDown 52%
Blade & Soul: 4Down 56%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 261× as many live Twitch viewers as Blade & Soul — 1,042 vs 4.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
Blade & Soul: 65.5kDown 0.2%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 18× as many YouTube subscribers as Blade & Soul — 1,200,000 vs 65,500.

How these estimates are made

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.

Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul is estimated to have 35 – 16k players a day. Around 24k – 2m 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.