Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs The Archives

Ark: Survival Ascended

Live

89k – 310k daily

The Archives

TBA

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

UNKNOWN

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

To be announced

Daily players

89k – 310k

No population data

Estimated players

300k2.1%

640.3%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

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Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival AscendedThe Archives

Ark: Survival Ascended

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~298.6k	Up 0.8%
July 2026	~296.1k	—

The Archives

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~65	Up 1.6%
July 2026	~64	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Ascended: 29.6kDown 5.3%
The Archives: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 29,586 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for The Archives.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 391.8k
The Archives: 232Down 1.3%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 1689× as many Discord members as The Archives — 391,843 vs 232.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 327k
The Archives: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 326,971 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for The Archives.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 2.1kUp 6.3%
The Archives: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 2,072 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for The Archives.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
The Archives: —

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

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

Ark: Survival Ascended is estimated to have 89k – 310k 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.

The Archives

The Archives is estimated to have 0 – 230 players a day. Around 530 – 58k 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.