Head to head
Elite: Dangerous vs Silica

Elite: Dangerous
~60k daily · 35k – 100k
Last measured Nov 7, 2026

Silica
~1.9k daily · 1.3k – 2.6k
Last measured Nov 7, 2026
VerdictElite: Dangerous has ~32× Silica's daily players (~60k vs ~1.9k, as of Nov 7, 2026).
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Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Est. daily players
Available on
- macOS
- PlayStation
- Windows
- Xbox
- Windows
Categories
Player activity
Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.
Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.
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
- 4.7k
- Silica
- 317
Elite: Dangerous currently has about 15× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Silica — 4,720 vs 317.
Discord members
- Elite: Dangerous
- 70.3k
- Silica
- 6.2k
Elite: Dangerous currently has about 11× as many Discord members as Silica — 70,260 vs 6,236.
Reddit members
- Elite: Dangerous
- 391.4k
- Silica
- —
Elite: Dangerous currently has 391,440 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Silica.
Twitch viewers
- Elite: Dangerous
- 226
- Silica
- 575
Silica currently has about 2.5× as many live Twitch viewers as Elite: Dangerous — 575 vs 226.
YouTube subscribers
- Elite: Dangerous
- 171k
- Silica
- 1.5k
Elite: Dangerous currently has about 114× as many YouTube subscribers as Silica — 171,000 vs 1,500.
How these estimates are made
Elite: Dangerous
We estimate that about 60,000 people play Elite: Dangerous on a typical day (most likely between 35,000 and 100,000), based on data from Nov 7, 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.
Silica
We estimate that about 1,900 people play Silica on a typical day (most likely between 1,300 and 2,600), based on data from Nov 7, 2026. Around 160,000 accounts (between 130,000 and 210,000) 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.
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