Head to head

Dark Ages vs Viking Rise

Dark Ages

Live

9 – 4k daily

Viking Rise

Live

2k – 7k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 1999 · 27 years ago

March 2023 · 4 years ago

Daily players

9 – 4k

2k – 7k

Estimated players

2.1k3.1%

69.8k0.1%

Available on

Windows

Windows
Android
iOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Dark AgesViking Rise

Dark Ages

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.1k	Down 1.5%
September 2026	~2.2k	Down 2.1%
August 2026	~2.2k	Down 0.9%
July 2026	~2.2k	—

Viking Rise

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~69.4k	Up 0.3%
September 2026	~69.2k	Up 0.4%
August 2026	~68.9k	Up 15%
July 2026	~59.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Dark Ages: 6.8kDown 1.0%
Viking Rise: 263.1k

Viking Rise currently has about 39× as many Discord members as Dark Ages — 263,148 vs 6,832.

Reddit members

Dark Ages: 1.8kUp 0.2%
Viking Rise: —

Dark Ages currently has 1,759 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Viking Rise.

Steam concurrent players

Dark Ages: —
Viking Rise: 624Down 20%

Viking Rise currently has 624 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

Twitch viewers

Dark Ages: —
Viking Rise: 340Up 18%

Viking Rise currently has 340 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

YouTube subscribers

Dark Ages: —
Viking Rise: 114kUp 0.9%

Viking Rise currently has 114,000 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 – 600k 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.

Viking Rise

Viking Rise is estimated to have 2k – 7k players a day. Around 28k – 72k 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.