Head to head

City of Heroes vs Guild Wars 2

City of Heroes

Live

74 – 34k daily

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 46k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2004 · 22 years ago

August 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

74 – 34k

13k – 46k

Estimated players

2.6k0.3%

86.5k0.4%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

City of HeroesGuild Wars 2

City of Heroes

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~2.6k	Up 0.2%
July 2026	~2.6k	—

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~85.9k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

City of Heroes: 25.8k
Guild Wars 2: 425.1kUp 0.1%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 16× as many subreddit members as City of Heroes — 425,115 vs 25,798.

Twitch viewers

City of Heroes: 85Up 85%
Guild Wars 2: 1.1kDown 46%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 13× as many live Twitch viewers as City of Heroes — 1,105 vs 85.

Steam concurrent players

City of Heroes: —
Guild Wars 2: 4.4kDown 22%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 4,365 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

Discord members

City of Heroes: —
Guild Wars 2: 47.7k

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,736 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

YouTube subscribers

City of Heroes: —
Guild Wars 2: 215k

Guild Wars 2 currently has 215,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

How these estimates are made

City of Heroes

City of Heroes is estimated to have 74 – 34k 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.

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 13k – 46k players a day. Around 490k – 1m 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.