Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs Citadel: Forged With Fire

Ark: Survival Ascended

Released

~230k daily · 140k – 390k

Last measured Nov 6, 2026

Citadel: Forged With Fire

Released

~130 daily · 29 – 370

Last measured Nov 6, 2026

VerdictArk: Survival Ascended has ~1769× Citadel: Forged With Fire's daily players (~230k vs ~130, as of Nov 6, 2026). Citadel: Forged With Fire's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.

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Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

November 2019 · 7 years ago

Est. daily players

~230k140k – 390kMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 6, 2026

~13029 – 370Low confidence · Last measured Nov 6, 2026

Available on

PlayStation
Windows

PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Ark: Survival AscendedCitadel: Forged With Fire

Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Ascended: 22.4k
Citadel: Forged With Fire: 6

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 3726× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Citadel: Forged With Fire — 22,355 vs 6.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 389.4k
Citadel: Forged With Fire: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 389,408 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Citadel: Forged With Fire.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 328.2k
Citadel: Forged With Fire: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 328,183 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Citadel: Forged With Fire.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.5k
Citadel: Forged With Fire: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 1,512 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Citadel: Forged With Fire.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
Citadel: Forged With Fire: 891

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 1347× as many YouTube subscribers as Citadel: Forged With Fire — 1,200,000 vs 891.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

We estimate that about 230,000 people play Ark: Survival Ascended on a typical day (most likely between 140,000 and 390,000), based on data from Nov 6, 2026. Around 4,400,000 accounts (between 2,900,000 and 6,700,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: medium — Steam covers part of the player base, or several community signals agree.

Citadel: Forged With Fire

We estimate that about 130 people play Citadel: Forged With Fire on a typical day (most likely between 29 and 370), based on data from Nov 6, 2026. Around 180,000 accounts (between 140,000 and 230,000) have played it at some point. Citadel: Forged With Fire is on Steam, but Steam covers only part of its players, so the estimate also draws on the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. Confidence: low — a community-size model, not a measurement.

How we estimate