Head to head

Core MUD vs Ultima Online

Core MUD

Live

Ultima Online

Live

56 – 26k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 1996 · 30 years ago

September 1997 · 29 years ago

Daily players

No population data

56 – 26k

Estimated players

—

2.3k0.9%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
iOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Text

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Core MUDUltima Online

Core MUD

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	—	—
October 2026	—	—
September 2026	—	—
August 2026	—	—
July 2026	—	—

Ultima Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~2.3k	Up 1.3%
October 2026	~2.3k	Up 1.4%
September 2026	~2.2k	Up 2.4%
August 2026	~2.2k	Up 16%
July 2026	~1.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Core MUD: —
Ultima Online: 18.8kUp 1.6%

Ultima Online currently has 18,773 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Core MUD.

Twitch viewers

Core MUD: —
Ultima Online: 183Down 17%

Ultima Online currently has 183 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Core MUD.

YouTube subscribers

Core MUD: —
Ultima Online: 3.9kUp 1.8%

Ultima Online currently has 3,870 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Core MUD.

How these estimates are made

Core MUD

Not enough data collected to estimate this game yet.

Ultima Online

Ultima Online is estimated to have 56 – 26k players a day. Around 20k – 2m 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.