Head to head

Ark: Survival Evolved vs Hero of Aethric

Ark: Survival Evolved

Live

58k – 200k daily

Hero of Aethric

Live

37 – 17k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2017 · 9 years ago

November 2022 · 4 years ago

Daily players

58k – 200k

37 – 17k

Estimated players

359.3k2.0%

14.8k0.3%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
iOS
PlayStation
Xbox
Nintendo

Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival EvolvedHero of Aethric

Ark: Survival Evolved

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~358.8k	Up 0.8%
August 2026	~356k
July 2026	~356.3k	—

Hero of Aethric

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~14.8k	Up 0.1%
August 2026	~14.8k	Down 0.4%
July 2026	~14.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Evolved: 22.1kDown 19%
Hero of Aethric: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 22,113 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Hero of Aethric.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 391.9k
Hero of Aethric: 46k

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 8.5× as many Discord members as Hero of Aethric — 391,899 vs 45,973.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 327.3kUp 0.1%
Hero of Aethric: 39.2kUp 0.5%

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 8.3× as many subreddit members as Hero of Aethric — 327,302 vs 39,234.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 379Down 32%
Hero of Aethric: 0

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 379 live Twitch viewers, while Hero of Aethric has 0.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 1.2m
Hero of Aethric: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 1,200,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Hero of Aethric.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved is estimated to have 58k – 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.

Hero of Aethric

Hero of Aethric is estimated to have 37 – 17k players a day. Around 16k – 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.