Head to head

Ark: Survival Evolved vs Dark Frontiers

Ark: Survival Evolved

Released

~110k daily · 79k – 150k

Last measured Nov 8, 2026

Dark Frontiers

Status unknown

~930 daily · 210 – 2.8k

Last measured Nov 8, 2026

VerdictArk: Survival Evolved has ~118× Dark Frontiers's daily players (~110k vs ~930, as of Nov 8, 2026). Dark Frontiers'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

Status unknown

Released

August 2017 · 9 years ago

Unknown

Est. daily players

~110k79k – 150kMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 8, 2026

~930210 – 2.8kLow confidence · Last measured Nov 8, 2026

Available on

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Nintendo
PlayStation
Stadia
Windows
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Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Ark: Survival EvolvedDark Frontiers

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 Evolved: 10.6k
Dark Frontiers: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 10,638 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Frontiers.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 389.9k
Dark Frontiers: 89.1k

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 4.4× as many Discord members as Dark Frontiers — 389,897 vs 89,110.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 328.2k
Dark Frontiers: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 328,206 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Frontiers.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 151
Dark Frontiers: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 151 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Frontiers.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 1.2m
Dark Frontiers: 74k

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 16× as many YouTube subscribers as Dark Frontiers — 1,200,000 vs 74,000.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Evolved

We estimate that about 110,000 people play Ark: Survival Evolved on a typical day (most likely between 79,000 and 150,000), based on data from Nov 8, 2026. Around 10,000,000 accounts (between 8,000,000 and 13,000,000) 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.

Dark Frontiers

We estimate that about 930 people play Dark Frontiers on a typical day (most likely between 210 and 2,800), based on data from Nov 8, 2026. Around 160,000 accounts (between 55,000 and 370,000) have played it at some point. Dark Frontiers 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