Head to head

Create vs DayZ

Create

Live

96 – 45k daily

DayZ

Live

120k – 420k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2019 · 7 years ago

December 2018 · 8 years ago

Daily players

96 – 45k

120k – 420k

Estimated players

44.1k6.6%

188k3.1%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

CreateDayZ

Create

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~46.1k	Down 0.5%
July 2026	~46.3k	—

DayZ

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~193.1k	Up 12%
July 2026	~173.1k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Create: 82.5kUp 0.4%
DayZ: 188.1kUp 1.2%

DayZ currently has about 2.3× as many Discord members as Create — 188,148 vs 82,460.

Reddit members

Create: 146.1kUp 1.7%
DayZ: 558.2kUp 0.3%

DayZ currently has about 3.8× as many subreddit members as Create — 558,221 vs 146,053.

Twitch viewers

Create: 0
DayZ: 3.2kDown 44%

Create currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while DayZ has 3,184.

YouTube subscribers

Create: 57k
DayZ: 135kUp 0.7%

DayZ currently has about 2.4× as many YouTube subscribers as Create — 135,000 vs 57,000.

Steam concurrent players

Create: —
DayZ: 23kDown 56%

DayZ currently has 23,043 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Create.

How these estimates are made

Create

Create is estimated to have 96 – 45k players a day. Around 35k – 4m 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.

DayZ

DayZ is estimated to have 120k – 420k players a day. Around 5m – 13m 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.