Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs The Lost Cities

Ark: Survival Ascended

Released

~230k daily · 140k – 390k

Last measured Nov 10, 2026

The Lost Cities

Released

~310 daily · 71 – 910

Last measured Nov 10, 2026

VerdictArk: Survival Ascended has ~742× The Lost Cities's daily players (~230k vs ~310, as of Nov 10, 2026). The Lost Cities'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

June 2017 · 9 years ago

Est. daily players

~230k140k – 390k68% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 10, 2026

~31071 – 910Low confidence · Last measured Nov 10, 2026

Available on

PlayStation
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Ark: Survival AscendedThe Lost Cities

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: 23.5kUp 23% past week
The Lost Cities: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 23,474 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for The Lost Cities.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 390kUp 0.2% past week
The Lost Cities: 6.7k

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 59× as many Discord members as The Lost Cities — 390,033 vs 6,662.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 328.2k
The Lost Cities: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 328,237 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for The Lost Cities.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.5kUp 76% past week
The Lost Cities: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 1,505 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for The Lost Cities.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
The Lost Cities: —

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

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

We estimate that about 230,000 people play Ark: Survival Ascended on a typical day (most likely between 140,000 and 390,000), based on data from Nov 10, 2026. Around 4,400,000 accounts (between 2,900,000 and 6,700,000) 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.

The Lost Cities

We estimate that about 310 people play The Lost Cities on a typical day (most likely between 71 and 910), based on data from Nov 10, 2026. Around 69,000 accounts (between 24,000 and 160,000) have played it at some point. The Lost Cities 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