Head to head

Elite: Dangerous vs Forge of Empires

Elite: Dangerous

Live

15k – 53k daily

Forge of Empires

Live

160 – 73k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

April 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

15k – 53k

160 – 73k

Estimated players

90.9k1.7%

8.4k

Available on

Windows
macOS
PlayStation
Xbox

Browser
Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Elite: DangerousForge of Empires

Elite: Dangerous

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~90.9k	Up 0.7%
July 2026	~90.3k	—

Forge of Empires

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~8.4k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Elite: Dangerous: 5.1kUp 2.1%
Forge of Empires: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 5,121 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Forge of Empires.

Discord members

Elite: Dangerous: 70.1k
Forge of Empires: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 70,096 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Forge of Empires.

Reddit members

Elite: Dangerous: 386.6kUp 0.1%
Forge of Empires: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 386,568 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Forge of Empires.

Twitch viewers

Elite: Dangerous: 466Up 17%
Forge of Empires: 0

Elite: Dangerous currently has 466 live Twitch viewers, while Forge of Empires has 0.

YouTube subscribers

Elite: Dangerous: 171k
Forge of Empires: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 171,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Forge of Empires.

How these estimates are made

Elite: Dangerous

Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 15k – 53k players a day. Around 2m – 4m 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.

Forge of Empires

Forge of Empires is estimated to have 160 – 73k players a day. Around 20k – 2m 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.