Head to head

Elite: Dangerous vs Ultima Online

Elite: Dangerous

Live

13k – 46k daily

Ultima Online

Live

44 – 20k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

September 1997 · 29 years ago

Daily players

13k – 46k

44 – 20k

Estimated players

92.3k0.4%

2.3k0.2%

Available on

Windows
macOS
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Elite: DangerousUltima Online

Elite: Dangerous

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~91.7k	Up 1.1%
September 2026	~90.7k	Up 0.5%
August 2026	~90.2k
July 2026	~90.3k	—

Ultima Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.3k	Up 1.4%
September 2026	~2.2k	Up 2.4%
August 2026	~2.2k	Up 16%
July 2026	~1.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Elite: Dangerous: 6.9kUp 47%
Ultima Online: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 6,915 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

Discord members

Elite: Dangerous: 70.2kDown 1.0%
Ultima Online: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 70,208 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

Reddit members

Elite: Dangerous: 391kUp 0.4%
Ultima Online: 18.8kUp 1.6%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 21× as many subreddit members as Ultima Online — 391,004 vs 18,758.

Twitch viewers

Elite: Dangerous: 328Down 49%
Ultima Online: 212Up 88%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 1.5× as many live Twitch viewers as Ultima Online — 328 vs 212.

YouTube subscribers

Elite: Dangerous: 171k
Ultima Online: 3.9kUp 1.8%

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 44× as many YouTube subscribers as Ultima Online — 171,000 vs 3,870.

How these estimates are made

Elite: Dangerous

Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 13k – 46k 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.

Ultima Online

Ultima Online is estimated to have 44 – 20k players a day. Around 18k – 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.