Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs Ragnarok: The New World

Ark: Survival Ascended

Live

55k – 200k daily

Ragnarok: The New World

Live

20k – 72k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

July 2026 · 2 months ago

Daily players

55k – 200k

20k – 72k

Estimated players

293.7k4.5%

87.2k1.5%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows
Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival AscendedRagnarok: The New World

Ark: Survival Ascended

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~290.5k	Down 1.4%
August 2026	~294.6k	Down 0.5%
July 2026	~296.1k	—

Ragnarok: The New World

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~87k	Up 2.7%
August 2026	~84.7k	Up 26%
July 2026	~67.1k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Ascended: 15.3kDown 42%
Ragnarok: The New World: 4.3kDown 44%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 3.6× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Ragnarok: The New World — 15,251 vs 4,275.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 391.5k
Ragnarok: The New World: 344.4kDown 1.1%

Ark: Survival Ascended and Ragnarok: The New World are nearly even on Discord members — 391,451 vs 344,385.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 327.7kUp 0.1%
Ragnarok: The New World: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 327,651 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Ragnarok: The New World.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.9kDown 93%
Ragnarok: The New World: 2Down 97%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 958× as many live Twitch viewers as Ragnarok: The New World — 1,915 vs 2.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
Ragnarok: The New World: —

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

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

Ark: Survival Ascended is estimated to have 55k – 200k 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.

Ragnarok: The New World

Ragnarok: The New World is estimated to have 20k – 72k players a day. Around 30k – 78k 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.