Head to head

Black Desert vs RuneScape Classic

Black Desert

Live

43k – 150k daily

RuneScape Classic

Live

17 – 8k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

January 2001 · 26 years ago

Daily players

43k – 150k

17 – 8k

Estimated players

88.4k0.6%

1150%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Black DesertRuneScape Classic

Black Desert

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~88.2k	Down 1.4%
September 2026	~89.4k	Down 2.5%
August 2026	~91.7k	Up 2.9%
July 2026	~89.1k	—

RuneScape Classic

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~1	Down 50%
September 2026	~2	Up 100%
August 2026	~1	—
July 2026	—	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Black Desert: 18kDown 6.2%
RuneScape Classic: —

Black Desert currently has 17,971 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Discord members

Black Desert: 95.1kDown 1.5%
RuneScape Classic: —

Black Desert currently has 95,075 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Reddit members

Black Desert: 270.1kUp 0.3%
RuneScape Classic: —

Black Desert currently has 270,140 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Twitch viewers

Black Desert: 13.3kUp 56%
RuneScape Classic: 1Down 92%

Black Desert currently has about 13264× as many live Twitch viewers as RuneScape Classic — 13,264 vs 1.

YouTube subscribers

Black Desert: 81.2kUp 0.1%
RuneScape Classic: —

Black Desert currently has 81,200 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

How these estimates are made

Black Desert

Black Desert is estimated to have 43k – 150k players a day. Around 1m – 3m 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.

RuneScape Classic

RuneScape Classic 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.