Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs City of Heroes

Ark: Survival Ascended

Live

89k – 310k daily

City of Heroes

Live

130 – 62k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

April 2004 · 22 years ago

Daily players

89k – 310k

130 – 62k

Estimated players

302.3k0.4%

2.6k2.2%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival AscendedCity of Heroes

Ark: Survival Ascended

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

City of Heroes

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~2.6k	Up 0.3%
July 2026	~2.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Ascended: 30.6kDown 14%
City of Heroes: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 30,608 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 391.9k
City of Heroes: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 391,931 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 327.3kUp 0.1%
City of Heroes: 25.9kUp 0.5%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 13× as many subreddit members as City of Heroes — 327,283 vs 25,891.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 9.5kUp 245%
City of Heroes: 45Up 61%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 211× as many live Twitch viewers as City of Heroes — 9,500 vs 45.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
City of Heroes: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 1,200,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

Ark: Survival Ascended is estimated to have 89k – 310k 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.

City of Heroes

City of Heroes is estimated to have 130 – 62k players a day. Around 39k – 4m 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.