Head to head

DayZ vs Rail Nation

DayZ

Live

110k – 390k daily

Rail Nation

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

110k – 390k

No population data

Estimated players

193.4k2.5%

580

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Browser

Platforms

Web Browser

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

DayZRail Nation

DayZ

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~195.1k	Up 0.6%
August 2026	~193.9k	Up 12%
July 2026	~173.1k	—

Rail Nation

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~580
August 2026	~580	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

DayZ: 43.3kDown 13%
Rail Nation: —

DayZ currently has 43,327 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Rail Nation.

Discord members

DayZ: 189.8kUp 1.1%
Rail Nation: —

DayZ currently has 189,786 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Rail Nation.

Reddit members

DayZ: 560.3kUp 0.4%
Rail Nation: —

DayZ currently has 560,330 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Rail Nation.

Twitch viewers

DayZ: 5.3kDown 32%
Rail Nation: —

DayZ currently has 5,273 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Rail Nation.

YouTube subscribers

DayZ: 136kUp 0.7%
Rail Nation: 5.7k

DayZ currently has about 24× as many YouTube subscribers as Rail Nation — 136,000 vs 5,660.

How these estimates are made

DayZ

DayZ is estimated to have 110k – 390k 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.

Rail Nation

Rail Nation is estimated to have 11 – 5k players a day. Around 5k – 530k 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.