Head to head

Elite: Dangerous vs Lineage II

Elite: Dangerous

Live

18k – 63k daily

Lineage II

Live

35 – 16k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

October 2003 · 23 years ago

Daily players

18k – 63k

35 – 16k

Estimated players

93.1k2.2%

5.9k2.1%

Available on

Windows
macOS
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Elite: DangerousLineage II

Elite: Dangerous

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~91.9k	Up 1.8%
August 2026	~90.2k
July 2026	~90.3k	—

Lineage II

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~5.9k	Up 2.2%
August 2026	~5.8k	Down 0.8%
July 2026	~5.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Elite: Dangerous: 5.3kDown 12%
Lineage II: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 5,258 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Lineage II.

Discord members

Elite: Dangerous: 70.7kUp 0.9%
Lineage II: 11kUp 3.6%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 6.4× as many Discord members as Lineage II — 70,701 vs 11,017.

Reddit members

Elite: Dangerous: 388.2kUp 0.4%
Lineage II: 15.3kUp 2.3%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 25× as many subreddit members as Lineage II — 388,236 vs 15,272.

Twitch viewers

Elite: Dangerous: 365Up 7.4%
Lineage II: 463Down 25%

Lineage II currently has about 1.3× as many live Twitch viewers as Elite: Dangerous — 463 vs 365.

YouTube subscribers

Elite: Dangerous: 171k
Lineage II: 16.6kUp 1.8%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 10× as many YouTube subscribers as Lineage II — 171,000 vs 16,600.

How these estimates are made

Elite: Dangerous

Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 18k – 63k 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.

Lineage II

Lineage II is estimated to have 35 – 16k players a day. Around 14k – 1m 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.