Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs Pulse Online

Ark: Survival Ascended

Released

~260k daily · 150k – 430k

Last measured Nov 14, 2026

Pulse Online

Released

~17 daily · 4 – 51

Last measured Nov 14, 2026

VerdictArk: Survival Ascended has ~15294× Pulse Online's daily players (~260k vs ~17, as of Nov 14, 2026). Pulse Online'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

February 2024 · 3 years ago

Est. daily players

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

~174 – 51Low confidence · Last measured Nov 14, 2026

Available on

PlayStation
Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Ark: Survival AscendedPulse Online

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: 23kDown 20% past week
Pulse Online: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 22,970 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Pulse Online.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 390.2k
Pulse Online: 292

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 1336× as many Discord members as Pulse Online — 390,190 vs 292.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 328.3k
Pulse Online: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 328,275 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Pulse Online.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.5kDown 10% past week
Pulse Online: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 1,485 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Pulse Online.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
Pulse Online: 194Down 0.5% past week

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 6186× as many YouTube subscribers as Pulse Online — 1,200,000 vs 194.

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.

Pulse Online

We estimate that about 17 people play Pulse Online on a typical day (most likely between 4 and 51), based on data from Nov 14, 2026. Around 7,200 accounts (between 2,500 and 17,000) have played it at some point. Pulse Online 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.

How we estimate