Head to head

EverQuest vs Phantasy Star Online

EverQuest

Live

700 – 3k daily

Phantasy Star Online

Live

15 – 7k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

March 1999 · 27 years ago

December 2000 · 26 years ago

Daily players

700 – 3k

15 – 7k

Estimated players

8.6k7.9%

156%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Platforms

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Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

EverQuestPhantasy Star Online

EverQuest

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~8.9k	Down 2.2%
August 2026	~9.1k	Down 1.1%
July 2026	~9.2k	—

Phantasy Star Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~2	Down 50%
August 2026	~4	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

EverQuest: 279Down 6.7%
Phantasy Star Online: —

EverQuest currently has 279 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Discord members

EverQuest: 17.2kUp 0.2%
Phantasy Star Online: —

EverQuest currently has 17,189 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Reddit members

EverQuest: 31.7kUp 0.5%
Phantasy Star Online: —

EverQuest currently has 31,665 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Twitch viewers

EverQuest: 67Down 5.6%
Phantasy Star Online: 4Down 60%

EverQuest currently has about 17× as many live Twitch viewers as Phantasy Star Online — 67 vs 4.

How these estimates are made

EverQuest

EverQuest is estimated to have 700 – 3k players a day. Around 66k – 170k 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.

Phantasy Star Online

Phantasy Star Online is estimated to have 15 – 7k 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.