Head to head

City of Heroes vs Guild Wars 2

City of Heroes

Live

62 – 29k daily

Guild Wars 2

Live

17k – 59k 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

62 – 29k

17k – 59k

Estimated players

2.6k2.0%

86.3k0.7%

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
September 2026	~2.6k	Up 0.6%
August 2026	~2.6k	Up 0.3%
July 2026	~2.6k	—

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~86.5k	Up 1.2%
August 2026	~85.5k	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: 26kUp 0.6%
Guild Wars 2: 428kUp 0.5%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 16× as many subreddit members as City of Heroes — 428,016 vs 25,990.

Twitch viewers

City of Heroes: 19Down 47%
Guild Wars 2: 2.4kUp 15%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 126× as many live Twitch viewers as City of Heroes — 2,385 vs 19.

Steam concurrent players

City of Heroes: —
Guild Wars 2: 6.7kUp 25%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 6,723 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

Discord members

City of Heroes: —
Guild Wars 2: 47.7kDown 0.2%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,717 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

YouTube subscribers

City of Heroes: —
Guild Wars 2: 219kUp 1.9%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 219,000 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 62 – 29k players a day. Around 29k – 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 17k – 59k players a day. Around 500k – 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.