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Ark: Survival Ascended vs Galacticraft

VerdictArk: Survival Ascended has ~1048× Galacticraft's daily players (~220k vs ~210, as of Nov 11, 2026). Galacticraft'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
Released

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago
February 2013 · 14 years ago

Est. daily players

~220k130k – 370kDown 5.5% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 11, 2026
~21049 – 630Down 7.4% this weekLow confidence · Last measured Nov 11, 2026

Available on

  • PlayStation
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Windows

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Ark: Survival AscendedGalacticraft

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
17.5kDown 7.9% past week
Galacticraft
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Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 17,515 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Galacticraft.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended
390kUp 0.2% past week
Galacticraft
5.4k

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 73× as many Discord members as Galacticraft — 390,033 vs 5,377.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended
328.2k
Galacticraft
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Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 328,246 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Galacticraft.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended
1.1kUp 33% past week
Galacticraft
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Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 1,136 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Galacticraft.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended
1.2m
Galacticraft
—

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

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

We estimate that about 220,000 people play Ark: Survival Ascended on a typical day (most likely between 130,000 and 370,000), based on data from Nov 11, 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.

Galacticraft

We estimate that about 210 people play Galacticraft on a typical day (most likely between 49 and 630), based on data from Nov 11, 2026. Around 51,000 accounts (between 18,000 and 120,000) have played it at some point. Galacticraft publishes no Steam player data, so the estimate is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. Confidence: low — a community-size model, not a measurement.

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