Head to head

Elite: Dangerous vs H1Z1

Elite: Dangerous

Live

20k – 71k daily

H1Z1

Live

210 – 98k 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

20k – 71k

210 – 98k

Estimated players

93.5k2.6%

12.8k5.1%

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	~91.5k	Up 0.8%
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	~14.5k	Up 6.3%
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: 5.2kUp 5.6%
H1Z1: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 5,174 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for H1Z1.

Discord members

Elite: Dangerous: 71.2kUp 0.5%
H1Z1: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 71,218 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for H1Z1.

Reddit members

Elite: Dangerous: 390.6kUp 0.4%
H1Z1: 50.4kUp 0.4%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 7.8× as many subreddit members as H1Z1 — 390,635 vs 50,397.

Twitch viewers

Elite: Dangerous: 453Up 9.4%
H1Z1: 1.7kDown 88%

H1Z1 currently has about 3.7× as many live Twitch viewers as Elite: Dangerous — 1,680 vs 453.

YouTube subscribers

Elite: Dangerous: 171k
H1Z1: 72.9kDown 0.1%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 2.3× as many YouTube subscribers as H1Z1 — 171,000 vs 72,900.

How these estimates are made

Elite: Dangerous

Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 20k – 71k 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 210 – 98k players a day. Around 49k – 5m 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.