Head to head

Dark and Light vs Final Fantasy XIV Online

Dark and Light

Live

73 – 260 daily

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Live

58k – 200k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

July 2017 · 9 years ago

September 2010 · 16 years ago

Daily players

73 – 260

58k – 200k

Estimated players

1.7k

330.1k0.4%

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation
macOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Dark and LightFinal Fantasy XIV Online

Dark and Light

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~1.7k	Down 0.3%
August 2026	~1.7k	Up 14%
July 2026	~1.5k	—

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~330k
August 2026	~330k
July 2026	~329.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Dark and Light: 26Down 28%
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 23.5kDown 26%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has about 905× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Dark and Light — 23,542 vs 26.

Twitch viewers

Dark and Light: 0
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 6.7kDown 47%

Dark and Light currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Final Fantasy XIV Online has 6,706.

YouTube subscribers

Dark and Light: 4.7kDown 0.2%
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 742kUp 0.3%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has about 157× as many YouTube subscribers as Dark and Light — 742,000 vs 4,730.

Discord members

Dark and Light: —
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 278.3kUp 0.8%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has 278,291 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Dark and Light.

Reddit members

Dark and Light: —
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 1.4mUp 0.6%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has 1,363,538 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Dark and Light.

How these estimates are made

Dark and Light

Dark and Light is estimated to have 73 – 260 players a day. Around 230k – 590k 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.

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Final Fantasy XIV Online is estimated to have 58k – 200k players a day. Around 1m – 3m 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.