Head to head

Ark: Survival of the Fittest vs Brighter Shores

Ark: Survival of the Fittest

Live

40 – 140 daily

Brighter Shores

Live

450 – 2k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

March 2016 · 11 years ago

November 2024 · 2 years ago

Daily players

40 – 140

450 – 2k

Estimated players

121.2k

3k0.5%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

First Person

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival of the FittestBrighter Shores

Ark: Survival of the Fittest

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~121.2k
September 2026	~121.2k
August 2026	~121.2k	Up 0.2%
July 2026	~121k	—

Brighter Shores

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~3k	Up 0.4%
September 2026	~2.9k	Up 0.2%
August 2026	~2.9k
July 2026	~2.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival of the Fittest: 8Down 33%
Brighter Shores: 179Up 48%

Brighter Shores currently has about 22× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Ark: Survival of the Fittest — 179 vs 8.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival of the Fittest: 0
Brighter Shores: 0Down 100%

Ark: Survival of the Fittest currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Brighter Shores has 0.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival of the Fittest: 1.2m
Brighter Shores: 1.5k

Ark: Survival of the Fittest currently has about 805× as many YouTube subscribers as Brighter Shores — 1,200,000 vs 1,490.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival of the Fittest: —
Brighter Shores: 17.8kUp 0.3%

Brighter Shores currently has 17,833 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Ark: Survival of the Fittest.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival of the Fittest

Ark: Survival of the Fittest is estimated to have 40 – 140 players a day. Around 230k – 590k 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.

Brighter Shores

Brighter Shores is estimated to have 450 – 2k players a day. Around 190k – 480k 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.