Head to head

Ark: Survival Evolved vs The Walking Dead: Empires

Ark: Survival Evolved

Live

59k – 210k daily

The Walking Dead: Empires

Live

59 – 28k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2017 · 9 years ago

November 2023 · 3 years ago

Daily players

59k – 210k

59 – 28k

Estimated players

364.8k1.0%

23.8k1.6%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
iOS
PlayStation
Xbox
Nintendo

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival EvolvedThe Walking Dead: Empires

Ark: Survival Evolved

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~359k	Up 0.8%
August 2026	~356k
July 2026	~356.3k	—

The Walking Dead: Empires

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~23.7k	Up 1.0%
August 2026	~23.5k	Down 0.1%
July 2026	~23.5k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Evolved: 24.3kUp 14%
The Walking Dead: Empires: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 24,260 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for The Walking Dead: Empires.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 391.9k
The Walking Dead: Empires: 102.4kDown 0.2%

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 3.8× as many Discord members as The Walking Dead: Empires — 391,927 vs 102,439.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 327.4kUp 0.1%
The Walking Dead: Empires: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 327,381 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for The Walking Dead: Empires.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 272Down 60%
The Walking Dead: Empires: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 272 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for The Walking Dead: Empires.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 1.2m
The Walking Dead: Empires: —

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

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved is estimated to have 59k – 210k 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.

The Walking Dead: Empires

The Walking Dead: Empires is estimated to have 59 – 28k players a day. Around 21k – 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.