Head to head

Ark: Survival Evolved vs Mekanism

Ark: Survival Evolved

Released

~85k daily · 61k – 120k

Last measured Nov 10, 2026

Mekanism

Released

~360 daily · 83 – 1.1k

Last measured Nov 10, 2026

VerdictArk: Survival Evolved has ~236× Mekanism's daily players (~85k vs ~360, as of Nov 10, 2026). Mekanism'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

August 2017 · 9 years ago

July 2012 · 14 years ago

Est. daily players

~85k61k – 120k33% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 10, 2026

~36083 – 1.1kLow confidence · Last measured Nov 10, 2026

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Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Ark: Survival EvolvedMekanism

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: 18.3kUp 79% past week
Mekanism: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 18,314 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Mekanism.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 390kUp 0.2% past week
Mekanism: 9.6k

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 41× as many Discord members as Mekanism — 390,035 vs 9,620.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 328.2k
Mekanism: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 328,238 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Mekanism.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 282Up 28% past week
Mekanism: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 282 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Mekanism.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 1.2m
Mekanism: —

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

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Evolved

We estimate that about 85,000 people play Ark: Survival Evolved on a typical day (most likely between 61,000 and 120,000), based on data from Nov 10, 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.

Mekanism

We estimate that about 360 people play Mekanism on a typical day (most likely between 83 and 1,100), based on data from Nov 10, 2026. Around 77,000 accounts (between 26,000 and 180,000) have played it at some point. Mekanism 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.

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