Head to head

Eve Online vs Merc Zone

Eve Online

Live

13k – 45k daily

Merc Zone

TBA

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

UNKNOWN

Released

May 2003 · 23 years ago

To be announced

Daily players

13k – 45k

No population data

Estimated players

66.1k1.4%

35k0.2%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux

Browser

Platforms

Web Browser

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Eve OnlineMerc Zone

Eve Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~66.7k	Up 0.5%
July 2026	~66.4k	—

Merc Zone

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~35.1k
July 2026	~35.1k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Eve Online: 5.3kDown 3.3%
Merc Zone: —

Eve Online currently has 5,339 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Merc Zone.

Discord members

Eve Online: 50.2kUp 0.3%
Merc Zone: 163.5k

Merc Zone currently has about 3.3× as many Discord members as Eve Online — 163,455 vs 50,247.

Reddit members

Eve Online: 221.4kUp 0.2%
Merc Zone: 574

Eve Online currently has about 386× as many subreddit members as Merc Zone — 221,439 vs 574.

Twitch viewers

Eve Online: 1.3kDown 32%
Merc Zone: —

Eve Online currently has 1,310 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Merc Zone.

YouTube subscribers

Eve Online: 227kUp 0.4%
Merc Zone: 16.4k

Eve Online currently has about 14× as many YouTube subscribers as Merc Zone — 227,000 vs 16,400.

How these estimates are made

Eve Online

Eve Online is estimated to have 13k – 45k players a day. Around 640k – 2m 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.

Merc Zone

Merc Zone is estimated to have 19 – 9k players a day. Around 9k – 920k 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.