Head to head

Dark Ages vs Elite: Dangerous

Dark Ages

Live

9 – 4k daily

Elite: Dangerous

Live

12k – 41k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 1999 · 27 years ago

December 2014 · 12 years ago

Daily players

9 – 4k

12k – 41k

Estimated players

2.1k6.3%

91.9k1.1%

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Dark AgesElite: Dangerous

Dark Ages

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.1k	Down 4.2%
September 2026	~2.2k	Down 2.1%
August 2026	~2.2k	Down 0.9%
July 2026	~2.2k	—

Elite: Dangerous

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~90.8k	Up 0.1%
September 2026	~90.7k	Up 0.5%
August 2026	~90.2k
July 2026	~90.3k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Dark Ages: 6.9kDown 0.3%
Elite: Dangerous: 71kUp 0.5%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 10× as many Discord members as Dark Ages — 70,960 vs 6,875.

Reddit members

Dark Ages: 1.8kUp 0.4%
Elite: Dangerous: 389.5kUp 0.4%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 222× as many subreddit members as Dark Ages — 389,468 vs 1,756.

Steam concurrent players

Dark Ages: —
Elite: Dangerous: 3.3kDown 43%

Elite: Dangerous currently has 3,319 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

Twitch viewers

Dark Ages: —
Elite: Dangerous: 193Down 71%

Elite: Dangerous currently has 193 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

YouTube subscribers

Dark Ages: —
Elite: Dangerous: 171k

Elite: Dangerous currently has 171,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

How these estimates are made

Dark Ages

Dark Ages is estimated to have 9 – 4k players a day. Around 6k – 580k 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.

Elite: Dangerous

Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 12k – 41k players a day. Around 2m – 4m 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.