Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs RuneScape Classic

Ark: Survival Ascended

Live

75k – 260k daily

RuneScape Classic

Live

13 – 6k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

January 2001 · 26 years ago

Daily players

75k – 260k

13 – 6k

Estimated players

291.1k2.1%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival AscendedRuneScape Classic

Ark: Survival Ascended

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~284.9k	Down 1.8%
September 2026	~290.2k	Down 1.5%
August 2026	~294.6k	Down 0.5%
July 2026	~296.1k	—

RuneScape Classic

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~1	Down 50%
September 2026	~2	Up 100%
August 2026	~1	—
July 2026	—	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Ascended: 30.8kUp 12%
RuneScape Classic: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 30,793 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 391.2kDown 0.2%
RuneScape Classic: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 391,199 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 327.8kUp 0.1%
RuneScape Classic: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 327,837 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.7kDown 34%
RuneScape Classic: 2Down 33%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 872× as many live Twitch viewers as RuneScape Classic — 1,744 vs 2.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
RuneScape Classic: —

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

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

Ark: Survival Ascended is estimated to have 75k – 260k 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.

RuneScape Classic

RuneScape Classic is estimated to have 13 – 6k players a day. Around 11k – 1m accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.