Head to head

Ark: Survival Ascended vs Ultima Online

Ark: Survival Ascended

Live

64k – 230k daily

Ultima Online

Live

44 – 20k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2023 · 3 years ago

September 1997 · 29 years ago

Daily players

64k – 230k

44 – 20k

Estimated players

296.6k0.8%

2.3k0.2%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival AscendedUltima Online

Ark: Survival Ascended

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~290.6k	Up 0.2%
September 2026	~290.2k	Down 1.5%
August 2026	~294.6k	Down 0.5%
July 2026	~296.1k	—

Ultima Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.3k	Up 1.4%
September 2026	~2.2k	Up 2.4%
August 2026	~2.2k	Up 16%
July 2026	~1.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Ascended: 28.8kUp 47%
Ultima Online: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 28,782 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 389kDown 0.6%
Ultima Online: —

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has 388,991 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Ascended: 328.1kUp 0.1%
Ultima Online: 18.8kUp 1.6%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 17× as many subreddit members as Ultima Online — 328,119 vs 18,758.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 2kDown 44%
Ultima Online: 212Up 88%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 9.6× as many live Twitch viewers as Ultima Online — 2,033 vs 212.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Ascended: 1.2m
Ultima Online: 3.9kUp 1.8%

Ark: Survival Ascended currently has about 310× as many YouTube subscribers as Ultima Online — 1,200,000 vs 3,870.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Ascended

Ark: Survival Ascended is estimated to have 64k – 230k 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.

Ultima Online

Ultima Online is estimated to have 44 – 20k players a day. Around 18k – 2m 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.