Head to head

Ashes of Creation vs Phantasy Star Online

Ashes of Creation

Live

40 – 140 daily

Phantasy Star Online

Live

17 – 8k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2025 · 10 months ago

December 2000 · 26 years ago

Daily players

40 – 140

17 – 8k

Estimated players

73.6k5.9%

164%

Available on

Windows

Platforms

Windows

—

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ashes of CreationPhantasy Star Online

Ashes of Creation

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~72k	Down 0.5%
September 2026	~72.4k	Down 1.6%
August 2026	~73.6k	Down 1.2%
July 2026	~74.5k	—

Phantasy Star Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2
September 2026	~2	Down 50%
August 2026	~4	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ashes of Creation: 14Up 250%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Ashes of Creation currently has 14 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Discord members

Ashes of Creation: 131.5kDown 1.8%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Ashes of Creation currently has 131,508 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Reddit members

Ashes of Creation: 92.5k
Phantasy Star Online: —

Ashes of Creation currently has 92,534 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Twitch viewers

Ashes of Creation: 5Down 76%
Phantasy Star Online: 4Down 90%

Ashes of Creation currently has about 1.3× as many live Twitch viewers as Phantasy Star Online — 5 vs 4.

YouTube subscribers

Ashes of Creation: 186kDown 0.5%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Ashes of Creation currently has 186,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

How these estimates are made

Ashes of Creation

Ashes of Creation is estimated to have 40 – 140 players a day. Around 350k – 890k 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.

Phantasy Star Online

Phantasy Star Online is estimated to have 17 – 8k players a day. Around 13k – 1m 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.