Head to head

City of Heroes: Homecoming vs The Lord of the Rings Online

City of Heroes: Homecoming

Released

~740 daily · 170 – 2.2k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

The Lord of the Rings Online

Released

~19k daily · 11k – 31k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

VerdictThe Lord of the Rings Online has ~26× City of Heroes: Homecoming's daily players (~19k vs ~740, as of Nov 9, 2026). City of Heroes: Homecoming'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

April 2019 · 8 years ago

April 2007 · 20 years ago

Est. daily players

~740170 – 2.2kLow confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

~19k11k – 31kMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Available on

macOS
Windows

macOS
Windows

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

City of Heroes: HomecomingThe Lord of the Rings 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.

Discord members

City of Heroes: Homecoming: 50.3k
The Lord of the Rings Online: 24.1k

City of Heroes: Homecoming currently has about 2.1× as many Discord members as The Lord of the Rings Online — 50,296 vs 24,077.

Reddit members

City of Heroes: Homecoming: 861
The Lord of the Rings Online: 88.6k

The Lord of the Rings Online currently has about 103× as many subreddit members as City of Heroes: Homecoming — 88,554 vs 861.

Twitch viewers

City of Heroes: Homecoming: 11
The Lord of the Rings Online: 57Up 73% past week

The Lord of the Rings Online currently has about 5.2× as many live Twitch viewers as City of Heroes: Homecoming — 57 vs 11.

Steam concurrent players

City of Heroes: Homecoming: —
The Lord of the Rings Online: 986Up 1.8% past week

The Lord of the Rings Online currently has 986 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes: Homecoming.

YouTube subscribers

City of Heroes: Homecoming: —
The Lord of the Rings Online: 25.5k

The Lord of the Rings Online currently has 25,500 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes: Homecoming.

How these estimates are made

City of Heroes: Homecoming

We estimate that about 740 people play City of Heroes: Homecoming on a typical day (most likely between 170 and 2,200), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 140,000 accounts (between 48,000 and 320,000) have played it at some point. City of Heroes: Homecoming 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.

The Lord of the Rings Online

We estimate that about 19,000 people play The Lord of the Rings Online on a typical day (most likely between 11,000 and 31,000), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 1,800,000 accounts (between 1,200,000 and 2,800,000) 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.

How we estimate