Head to head

Elite: Dangerous vs H1Z1

Elite: Dangerous

Live

14k – 48k daily

H1Z1

Live

310 – 140k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

January 2015 · 12 years ago

Daily players

14k – 48k

310 – 140k

Estimated players

89.8k0.9%

14.3k4.5%

Available on

Windows
macOS
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Elite: DangerousH1Z1

Elite: Dangerous

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~90.6k	Down 0.2%
September 2026	~90.7k	Up 0.5%
August 2026	~90.2k
July 2026	~90.3k	—

H1Z1

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~13.9k	Up 1.7%
September 2026	~13.7k	Up 10%
August 2026	~12.4k	Up 0.5%
July 2026	~12.3k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Elite: Dangerous: 3.4kDown 45%
H1Z1: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 3,434 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for H1Z1.

Discord members

Elite: Dangerous: 71kUp 0.5%
H1Z1: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 70,960 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for H1Z1.

Reddit members

Elite: Dangerous: 389.5kUp 0.4%
H1Z1: 50.3kUp 0.4%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 7.7× as many subreddit members as H1Z1 — 389,513 vs 50,300.

Twitch viewers

Elite: Dangerous: 295Down 27%
H1Z1: 8kUp 412%

H1Z1 currently has about 27× as many live Twitch viewers as Elite: Dangerous — 8,033 vs 295.

YouTube subscribers

Elite: Dangerous: 171k
H1Z1: 73k

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 2.3× as many YouTube subscribers as H1Z1 — 171,000 vs 73,000.

How these estimates are made

Elite: Dangerous

Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 14k – 48k 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.

H1Z1

H1Z1 is estimated to have 310 – 140k players a day. Around 57k – 6m 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.