Head to head

DayZ vs Merc Zone

DayZ

Live

130k – 470k daily

Merc Zone

TBA

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

UNKNOWN

Released

December 2018 · 8 years ago

To be announced

Daily players

130k – 470k

No population data

Estimated players

192.6k2.5%

35k0.2%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Browser

Platforms

Web Browser

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

DayZMerc Zone

DayZ

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~194.7k	Up 13%
July 2026	~173.1k	—

Merc Zone

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~35.1k
July 2026	~35.1k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

DayZ: 58.8kDown 2.0%
Merc Zone: —

DayZ currently has 58,817 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Merc Zone.

Discord members

DayZ: 187.8kUp 0.4%
Merc Zone: 163.5k

DayZ and Merc Zone are nearly even on Discord members — 187,791 vs 163,455.

Reddit members

DayZ: 558k
Merc Zone: 574

DayZ currently has about 972× as many subreddit members as Merc Zone — 558,038 vs 574.

Twitch viewers

DayZ: 6.6kUp 16%
Merc Zone: —

DayZ currently has 6,641 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Merc Zone.

YouTube subscribers

DayZ: 135kUp 0.7%
Merc Zone: 16.4k

DayZ currently has about 8.2× as many YouTube subscribers as Merc Zone — 135,000 vs 16,400.

How these estimates are made

DayZ

DayZ is estimated to have 130k – 470k 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.

Merc Zone

Merc Zone is estimated to have 19 – 9k players a day. Around 9k – 920k 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.