Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs Pioner

Ark: Survival Ascended

Released

~260k daily · 150k – 430k

Last measured Nov 14, 2026

Pioner

Released

~900 daily · 210 – 2.7k

Last measured Nov 14, 2026

VerdictArk: Survival Ascended has ~289× Pioner's daily players (~260k vs ~900, as of Nov 14, 2026). Pioner'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

December 2025 · 11 months ago

Est. daily players

~260k150k – 430k9.9% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 14, 2026

~900210 – 2.7kLow confidence · Last measured Nov 14, 2026

Available on

PlayStation
Windows

Linux
Windows

Platforms

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Ark: Survival AscendedPioner

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: 29.1kUp 2.1% past week
Pioner: 6Down 65% past week

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 4854× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Pioner — 29,126 vs 6.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 390.2k
Pioner: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 390,190 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Pioner.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 328.3k
Pioner: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 328,278 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Pioner.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.5kDown 10% past week
Pioner: 2

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 743× as many live Twitch viewers as Pioner — 1,485 vs 2.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
Pioner: 22.5k

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 53× as many YouTube subscribers as Pioner — 1,200,000 vs 22,500.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

We estimate that about 260,000 people play Ark: Survival Ascended on a typical day (most likely between 150,000 and 430,000), based on data from Nov 14, 2026. Around 4,400,000 accounts (between 2,900,000 and 6,800,000) 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.

Pioner

We estimate that about 900 people play Pioner on a typical day (most likely between 210 and 2,700), based on data from Nov 14, 2026. Around 160,000 accounts (between 95,000 and 380,000) have played it at some point. Pioner 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