Head to head

Blade & Soul vs New World: Aeternum

Blade & Soul

Live

68 – 32k daily

New World: Aeternum

Live

1k – 4k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

June 2012 · 14 years ago

September 2021 · 5 years ago

Daily players

68 – 32k

1k – 4k

Estimated players

11.5k

93.8k

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Blade & SoulNew World: Aeternum

Blade & Soul

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~11.5k
July 2026	~11.5k	—

New World: Aeternum

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~95.2k	Down 0.7%
July 2026	~95.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Blade & Soul: 49.1k
New World: Aeternum: 305.9k

New World: Aeternum currently has about 6.2× as many subreddit members as Blade & Soul — 305,939 vs 49,136.

Twitch viewers

Blade & Soul: 1Down 88%
New World: Aeternum: 62Down 88%

New World: Aeternum currently has about 62× as many live Twitch viewers as Blade & Soul — 62 vs 1.

YouTube subscribers

Blade & Soul: 65.6kDown 0.2%
New World: Aeternum: 146k

New World: Aeternum currently has about 2.2× as many YouTube subscribers as Blade & Soul — 146,000 vs 65,600.

Steam concurrent players

Blade & Soul: —
New World: Aeternum: 513Down 13%

New World: Aeternum currently has 513 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

Discord members

Blade & Soul: —
New World: Aeternum: 67.8kDown 1.9%

New World: Aeternum currently has 67,826 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

How these estimates are made

Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul is estimated to have 68 – 32k players a day. Around 31k – 3m 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.

New World: Aeternum

New World: Aeternum is estimated to have 1k – 4k players a day. Around 4m – 9m 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.