Head to head

Black Desert Online vs Phantasy Star Online

Black Desert Online

Released

~310k daily · 180k – 520k

Last measured Nov 13, 2026

Phantasy Star Online

Released

~1.2k daily · 290 – 3.7k

Last measured Nov 13, 2026

VerdictBlack Desert Online has ~258× Phantasy Star Online's daily players (~310k vs ~1.2k, as of Nov 13, 2026). Phantasy Star Online'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

July 2015 · 11 years ago

December 2000 · 26 years ago

Est. daily players

~310k180k – 520k10% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 13, 2026

~1.2k290 – 3.7k0.2% this weekLow confidence · Last measured Nov 13, 2026

Available on

PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

Platforms

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Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Black Desert OnlinePhantasy Star Online

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

Black Desert Online: 16.8kDown 4.6% past week
Phantasy Star Online: —

Black Desert Online currently has 16,819 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Discord members

Black Desert Online: 94.9kDown 0.2% past week
Phantasy Star Online: —

Black Desert Online currently has 94,856 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Reddit members

Black Desert Online: 270.4k
Phantasy Star Online: 13.8kUp 0.3% past week

Black Desert Online currently has about 20× as many subreddit members as Phantasy Star Online — 270,413 vs 13,769.

Twitch viewers

Black Desert Online: 13.7kUp 11% past week
Phantasy Star Online: —

Black Desert Online currently has 13,734 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

YouTube subscribers

Black Desert Online: 44k
Phantasy Star Online: —

Black Desert Online currently has 44,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

How these estimates are made

Black Desert Online

We estimate that about 310,000 people play Black Desert Online on a typical day (most likely between 180,000 and 520,000), based on data from Nov 13, 2026. Around 5,000,000 accounts (between 3,300,000 and 7,600,000) 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.

Phantasy Star Online

We estimate that about 1,200 people play Phantasy Star Online on a typical day (most likely between 290 and 3,700), based on data from Nov 13, 2026. Around 270,000 accounts (between 92,000 and 620,000) have played it at some point. Phantasy Star Online 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.

How we estimate