Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs Dark and Light

Ark: Survival Ascended

Released

~230k daily · 140k – 400k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Dark and Light

Released

~350 daily · 100 – 1k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

VerdictArk: Survival Ascended has ~657× Dark and Light's daily players (~230k vs ~350, as of Nov 9, 2026). Dark and Light's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

July 2017 · 9 years ago

Est. daily players

~230k140k – 400kMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

~350100 – 1kLow confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Available on

PlayStation
Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Ark: Survival AscendedDark and Light

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: 24.8kUp 31% past week
Dark and Light: 31Up 55% past week

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 801× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Dark and Light — 24,824 vs 31.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 390k
Dark and Light: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 390,038 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Dark and Light.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 328.2k
Dark and Light: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 328,226 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Dark and Light.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 2kUp 131% past week
Dark and Light: 4

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 492× as many live Twitch viewers as Dark and Light — 1,969 vs 4.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
Dark and Light: 4.7k

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 254× as many YouTube subscribers as Dark and Light — 1,200,000 vs 4,720.

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 400,000), based on data from Nov 9, 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.

Dark and Light

We estimate that about 350 people play Dark and Light on a typical day (most likely between 100 and 1,000), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 330,000 accounts (between 260,000 and 430,000) have played it at some point. Dark and Light 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