Head to head

Ark: Survival Evolved vs Free City

Ark: Survival Evolved

Live

57k – 200k daily

Free City

TBA

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

UNKNOWN

Released

August 2017 · 9 years ago

To be announced

Daily players

57k – 200k

No population data

Estimated players

363.5k0.1%

1.8k0.4%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
iOS
PlayStation
Xbox
Nintendo

Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival EvolvedFree City

Ark: Survival Evolved

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~360.5k	Up 2.1%
October 2026	~352.9k	Up 0.2%
September 2026	~352.3k	Down 1.0%
August 2026	~356k
July 2026	~356.3k	—

Free City

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~1.8k	Down 1.1%
October 2026	~1.8k	Down 1.1%
September 2026	~1.8k	Down 1.2%
August 2026	~1.8k	Up 15%
July 2026	~1.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Evolved: 10.9kDown 49%
Free City: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 10,923 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Free City.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 389kDown 0.6%
Free City: 6.8kDown 1.5%

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 57× as many Discord members as Free City — 388,994 vs 6,848.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 328.1kUp 0.1%
Free City: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 328,135 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Free City.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 231Down 2.9%
Free City: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 231 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Free City.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 1.2m
Free City: 3.5kUp 0.9%

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 340× as many YouTube subscribers as Free City — 1,200,000 vs 3,530.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved is estimated to have 57k – 200k 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.

Free City

Free City is estimated to have 4 – 2k players a day. Around 3k – 280k 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.