Head to head

Elite: Dangerous vs Rusty Hearts

Elite: Dangerous

Live

16k – 56k daily

Rusty Hearts

Live

2 – 750 daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

October 2011 · 15 years ago

Daily players

16k – 56k

2 – 750

Estimated players

92k1.0%

Available on

Windows
macOS
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Elite: DangerousRusty Hearts

Elite: Dangerous

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~91.4k	Up 1.2%
August 2026	~90.2k
July 2026	~90.3k	—

Rusty Hearts

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~16
August 2026	~16
July 2026	~16	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Elite: Dangerous: 5.3kUp 13%
Rusty Hearts: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 5,348 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Rusty Hearts.

Discord members

Elite: Dangerous: 70.6kUp 0.8%
Rusty Hearts: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 70,614 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Rusty Hearts.

Reddit members

Elite: Dangerous: 388kUp 0.4%
Rusty Hearts: 161

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 2410× as many subreddit members as Rusty Hearts — 388,024 vs 161.

Twitch viewers

Elite: Dangerous: 287Down 35%
Rusty Hearts: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 287 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Rusty Hearts.

YouTube subscribers

Elite: Dangerous: 171k
Rusty Hearts: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 171,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Rusty Hearts.

How these estimates are made

Elite: Dangerous

Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 16k – 56k 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.

Rusty Hearts

Rusty Hearts is estimated to have 2 – 750 players a day. Around 2k – 220k 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.