Head to head
Elite: Dangerous vs Shards Online
Elite: Dangerous
~48k daily · 28k – 81k
Last measured Nov 13, 2026
Shards Online
No current estimate
VerdictShards Online has no current player-count estimate yet, so we can't compare it with Elite: Dangerous's ~48k daily players.
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Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Est. daily players
Available on
- macOS
- PlayStation
- Windows
- Xbox
Community breakdown
Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.
Steam concurrent players
- Elite: Dangerous
- 5.1kDown 11% past week
- Shards Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 5,076 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Shards Online.
Discord members
- Elite: Dangerous
- 70.3k
- Shards Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 70,266 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Shards Online.
Reddit members
- Elite: Dangerous
- 391.7k
- Shards Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 391,692 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Shards Online.
Twitch viewers
- Elite: Dangerous
- 255Down 30% past week
- Shards Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 255 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Shards Online.
YouTube subscribers
- Elite: Dangerous
- 171k
- Shards Online
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 171,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Shards Online.
How these estimates are made
Elite: Dangerous
We estimate that about 48,000 people play Elite: Dangerous on a typical day (most likely between 28,000 and 81,000), based on data from Nov 13, 2026. Around 3,500,000 accounts (between 2,300,000 and 5,300,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: medium — Steam covers part of the player base, or several community signals agree.
Shards Online
No estimate yet — collecting data since Nov 5, 2026.
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