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Head to head

Battle Dawn vs DayZ

VerdictDayZ has ~21739× Battle Dawn's daily players (~500k vs ~23, as of Nov 14, 2026). Battle Dawn's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.

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Status

Released
Released

Released

January 2006 · 21 years ago
December 2018 · 8 years ago

Est. daily players

~235 – 67Up 1.2% this weekLow confidence · Last measured Nov 14, 2026
~500k300k – 840kUp 13% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 14, 2026

Available on

  • Browser
  • PlayStation
  • Windows
  • Xbox

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Battle DawnDayZ

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.

Reddit members

Battle Dawn
62Up 1.6% past week
DayZ
564.4k

DayZ currently has about 9103× as many subreddit members as Battle Dawn — 564,397 vs 62.

Steam concurrent players

Battle Dawn
—
DayZ
35.6kDown 39% past week

DayZ currently has 35,635 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Battle Dawn.

Discord members

Battle Dawn
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DayZ
189.9kUp 0.1% past week

DayZ currently has 189,881 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Battle Dawn.

Twitch viewers

Battle Dawn
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DayZ
3.6kDown 41% past week

DayZ currently has 3,577 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Battle Dawn.

YouTube subscribers

Battle Dawn
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DayZ
137k

DayZ currently has 137,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Battle Dawn.

How these estimates are made

Battle Dawn

We estimate that about 23 people play Battle Dawn on a typical day (most likely between 5 and 67), based on data from Nov 14, 2026. Around 15,000 accounts (between 5,300 and 36,000) have played it at some point. Battle Dawn 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.

DayZ

We estimate that about 500,000 people play DayZ on a typical day (most likely between 300,000 and 840,000), based on data from Nov 14, 2026. Around 13,000,000 accounts (between 8,500,000 and 20,000,000) 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.

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