Head to head
Elite: Dangerous vs Ran Online
Side by side
Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Daily players
Estimated players
Available on
- Windows
- macOS
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Windows
Player activity
Smoothed estimated players over time.
Elite: Dangerous
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | ~93.8k | Up 2.2% |
| October 2026 | ~91.7k | Up 1.1% |
| September 2026 | ~90.7k | Up 0.5% |
| August 2026 | ~90.2k | |
| July 2026 | ~90.3k | — |
Ran Online
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | ~5 | Up 67% |
| October 2026 | ~3 | Up 50% |
| September 2026 | ~2 | Up 100% |
| August 2026 | ~1 | — |
Community breakdown
Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.
Steam concurrent players
- Elite: Dangerous
- 7kUp 50%
- Ran Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 6,991 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Ran Online.
Discord members
- Elite: Dangerous
- 70.2kDown 1.0%
- Ran Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 70,208 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Ran Online.
Reddit members
- Elite: Dangerous
- 391.1kUp 0.4%
- Ran Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 391,087 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Ran Online.
Twitch viewers
- Elite: Dangerous
- 318Down 47%
- Ran Online
- 27Up 59%
Elite: Dangerous currently has about 12× as many live Twitch viewers as Ran Online — 318 vs 27.
YouTube subscribers
- Elite: Dangerous
- 171k
- Ran Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 171,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Ran Online.
How these estimates are made
Elite: Dangerous
Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 17k – 61k 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.
Ran Online
Ran Online is estimated to have 30 – 14k players a day. Around 17k – 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.