Head to head

City of Heroes vs Knight Online

City of Heroes

Released

~1.9k daily · 430 – 5.5k

Last measured Nov 13, 2026

Knight Online

Released

~44k daily · 26k – 75k

Last measured Nov 13, 2026

VerdictKnight Online has ~23× City of Heroes's daily players (~44k vs ~1.9k, as of Nov 13, 2026). City of Heroes'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 2004 · 23 years ago

July 2002 · 24 years ago

Est. daily players

~1.9k430 – 5.5k43% this weekLow confidence · Last measured Nov 13, 2026

~44k26k – 75k6.7% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 13, 2026

Available on

macOS
Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

City of HeroesKnight 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.

Reddit members

City of Heroes: 26.2k
Knight Online: 584Up 0.7% past week

City of Heroes currently has about 45× as many subreddit members as Knight Online — 26,242 vs 584.

Twitch viewers

City of Heroes: 15Down 55% past week
Knight Online: 9.4kUp 36% past week

Knight Online currently has about 625× as many live Twitch viewers as City of Heroes — 9,372 vs 15.

Steam concurrent players

City of Heroes: —
Knight Online: 1.8kDown 8.3% past week

Knight Online currently has 1,807 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

YouTube subscribers

City of Heroes: —
Knight Online: 15.9kUp 0.6% past week

Knight Online currently has 15,900 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

How these estimates are made

City of Heroes

We estimate that about 1,900 people play City of Heroes on a typical day (most likely between 430 and 5,500), based on data from Nov 13, 2026. Around 330,000 accounts (between 120,000 and 770,000) have played it at some point. City of Heroes 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.

Knight Online

We estimate that about 44,000 people play Knight Online on a typical day (most likely between 26,000 and 75,000), based on data from Nov 13, 2026. Around 1,400,000 accounts (between 910,000 and 2,100,000) 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