Head to head

Eve Online vs The Cycle: Frontier

Eve Online

Live

15k – 51k daily

The Cycle: Frontier

Live

10 – 35 daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

May 2003 · 23 years ago

June 2022 · 4 years ago

Daily players

15k – 51k

10 – 35

Estimated players

71.7k1.4%

37.8k1.2%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Eve OnlineThe Cycle: Frontier

Eve Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~70.9k	Up 2.5%
October 2026	~69.2k	Up 1.9%
September 2026	~67.9k	Up 1.7%
August 2026	~66.8k	Up 0.7%
July 2026	~66.4k	—

The Cycle: Frontier

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~37.5k	Up 2.2%
October 2026	~36.7k
September 2026	~36.7k	Down 0.7%
August 2026	~37k
July 2026	~37k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Eve Online: 5.3kUp 0.5%
The Cycle: Frontier: 5Up 67%

Eve Online currently has about 1064× as many peak concurrent Steam players as The Cycle: Frontier — 5,318 vs 5.

Discord members

Eve Online: 52.3kUp 0.5%
The Cycle: Frontier: 104.2kDown 1.8%

The Cycle: Frontier currently has about 2× as many Discord members as Eve Online — 104,201 vs 52,332.

Reddit members

Eve Online: 224.7kUp 0.4%
The Cycle: Frontier: 17.7k

Eve Online currently has about 13× as many subreddit members as The Cycle: Frontier — 224,687 vs 17,679.

Twitch viewers

Eve Online: 3.7kUp 69%
The Cycle: Frontier: 103Up 41%

Eve Online currently has about 36× as many live Twitch viewers as The Cycle: Frontier — 3,705 vs 103.

YouTube subscribers

Eve Online: 237kUp 1.7%
The Cycle: Frontier: 17.3k

Eve Online currently has about 14× as many YouTube subscribers as The Cycle: Frontier — 237,000 vs 17,300.

How these estimates are made

Eve Online

Eve Online is estimated to have 15k – 51k 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.

The Cycle: Frontier

The Cycle: Frontier is estimated to have 10 – 35 players a day. Around 720k – 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.