Head to head

Dark Ages vs Heroes of Newerth

Dark Ages

Live

10 – 4k daily

Heroes of Newerth

Live

44 – 20k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 1999 · 27 years ago

May 2010 · 16 years ago

Daily players

10 – 4k

44 – 20k

Estimated players

2.2k0.1%

19.5k

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS
Linux

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Dark AgesHeroes of Newerth

Dark Ages

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.2k	Down 0.4%
September 2026	~2.2k	Down 2.1%
August 2026	~2.2k	Down 0.9%
July 2026	~2.2k	—

Heroes of Newerth

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~19.5k
September 2026	~19.5k
August 2026	~19.4k
July 2026	~19.4k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Dark Ages: 6.8kDown 1.1%
Heroes of Newerth: —

Dark Ages currently has 6,802 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Heroes of Newerth.

Reddit members

Dark Ages: 1.8kUp 0.2%
Heroes of Newerth: 19.6kUp 0.3%

Heroes of Newerth currently has about 11× as many subreddit members as Dark Ages — 19,643 vs 1,760.

Twitch viewers

Dark Ages: —
Heroes of Newerth: 0Down 100%

Heroes of Newerth currently has 0 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

YouTube subscribers

Dark Ages: —
Heroes of Newerth: 175k

Heroes of Newerth currently has 175,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

How these estimates are made

Dark Ages

Dark Ages is estimated to have 10 – 4k players a day. Around 6k – 610k 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.

Heroes of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth is estimated to have 44 – 20k players a day. Around 25k – 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.