Head to head

City of Heroes vs War Thunder

City of Heroes

Live

56 – 26k daily

War Thunder

Live

200k – 720k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2004 · 22 years ago

January 2013 · 14 years ago

Daily players

56 – 26k

200k – 720k

Estimated players

2.6k

371.2k0.9%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

City of HeroesWar Thunder

City of Heroes

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.6k
September 2026	~2.6k	Up 0.8%
August 2026	~2.6k	Up 0.3%
July 2026	~2.6k	—

War Thunder

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~368.3k	Down 0.1%
September 2026	~368.7k	Up 1.8%
August 2026	~362.3k	Up 0.6%
July 2026	~360.3k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

City of Heroes: 26.1kUp 0.6%
War Thunder: 566.7kUp 0.7%

War Thunder currently has about 22× as many subreddit members as City of Heroes — 566,665 vs 26,090.

Twitch viewers

City of Heroes: 11Down 45%
War Thunder: 1.1kDown 64%

War Thunder currently has about 97× as many live Twitch viewers as City of Heroes — 1,062 vs 11.

Steam concurrent players

City of Heroes: —
War Thunder: 54.2kDown 28%

War Thunder currently has 54,184 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for City of Heroes.

YouTube subscribers

City of Heroes: —
War Thunder: 1.9mUp 1.0%

War Thunder currently has 1,950,000 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 56 – 26k players a day. Around 27k – 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.

War Thunder

War Thunder is estimated to have 200k – 720k players a day. Around 8m – 21m 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.