Head to head

Ark: Survival Evolved vs Blade & Soul

Ark: Survival Evolved

Live

44k – 160k daily

Blade & Soul

Live

46 – 22k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2017 · 9 years ago

June 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

44k – 160k

46 – 22k

Estimated players

342.3k3.1%

11.5k

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
iOS
PlayStation
Xbox
Nintendo

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival EvolvedBlade & Soul

Ark: Survival Evolved

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~348.7k	Down 1.0%
September 2026	~352.3k	Down 1.0%
August 2026	~356k
July 2026	~356.3k	—

Blade & Soul

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~11.5k
September 2026	~11.5k
August 2026	~11.5k
July 2026	~11.5k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Evolved: 16.5kDown 32%
Blade & Soul: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 16,470 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 391.3kDown 0.2%
Blade & Soul: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 391,295 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 327.8kUp 0.1%
Blade & Soul: 49.2k

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 6.7× as many subreddit members as Blade & Soul — 327,769 vs 49,160.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 111Down 64%
Blade & Soul: 1Down 91%

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 111× as many live Twitch viewers as Blade & Soul — 111 vs 1.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 1.2m
Blade & Soul: 65.5kDown 0.2%

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 18× as many YouTube subscribers as Blade & Soul — 1,200,000 vs 65,500.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved is estimated to have 44k – 160k players a day. Around 8m – 21m 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.

Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul is estimated to have 46 – 22k players a day. Around 27k – 3m 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.