Head to head

Ark: Survival Evolved vs Ember Sword

Ark: Survival Evolved

Live

45k – 160k daily

Ember Sword

Live

29 – 14k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2017 · 9 years ago

December 2024 · 2 years ago

Daily players

45k – 160k

29 – 14k

Estimated players

361.4k5.7%

14.1k1.9%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
iOS
PlayStation
Xbox
Nintendo

Browser
Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ark: Survival EvolvedEmber Sword

Ark: Survival Evolved

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~352.6k
September 2026	~352.3k	Down 1.0%
August 2026	~356k
July 2026	~356.3k	—

Ember Sword

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~14k	Down 0.3%
September 2026	~14.1k	Down 0.6%
August 2026	~14.2k	Up 17%
July 2026	~12.1k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Evolved: 9.2kDown 48%
Ember Sword: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 9,155 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Ember Sword.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 391.3kDown 0.2%
Ember Sword: 56.6kDown 0.8%

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 6.9× as many Discord members as Ember Sword — 391,251 vs 56,638.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 327.9kUp 0.1%
Ember Sword: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 327,876 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Ember Sword.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 290Down 16%
Ember Sword: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 290 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Ember Sword.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 1.2m
Ember Sword: 12.5k

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 96× as many YouTube subscribers as Ember Sword — 1,200,000 vs 12,500.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved is estimated to have 45k – 160k players a day. Around 8m – 21m 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.

Ember Sword

Ember Sword is estimated to have 29 – 14k players a day. Around 12k – 1m 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.