Head to head

Final Fantasy XIV Online vs Star Citizen

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Live

47k – 170k daily

Star Citizen

Live

450 – 210k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

September 2010 · 16 years ago

August 2013 · 13 years ago

Daily players

47k – 170k

450 – 210k

Estimated players

328.5k3.7%

170.7k5.7%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
macOS

Windows
Linux

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Final Fantasy XIV OnlineStar Citizen

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~324k	Down 1.1%
September 2026	~327.7k	Down 0.7%
August 2026	~330k
July 2026	~329.8k	—

Star Citizen

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~164.5k	Up 0.7%
September 2026	~163.4k	Down 0.2%
August 2026	~163.7k	Down 0.6%
July 2026	~164.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Final Fantasy XIV Online: 18.5kDown 22%
Star Citizen: —

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has 18,516 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Star Citizen.

Discord members

Final Fantasy XIV Online: 279.3k
Star Citizen: 162.2kDown 0.1%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has about 1.7× as many Discord members as Star Citizen — 279,331 vs 162,154.

Reddit members

Final Fantasy XIV Online: 1.4mUp 0.3%
Star Citizen: 533.5kUp 0.6%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has about 2.6× as many subreddit members as Star Citizen — 1,370,360 vs 533,506.

Twitch viewers

Final Fantasy XIV Online: 5.3kDown 18%
Star Citizen: 10.2kUp 362%

Star Citizen currently has about 1.9× as many live Twitch viewers as Final Fantasy XIV Online — 10,181 vs 5,332.

YouTube subscribers

Final Fantasy XIV Online: 743kUp 0.1%
Star Citizen: 576kUp 0.2%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has about 1.3× as many YouTube subscribers as Star Citizen — 743,000 vs 576,000.

How these estimates are made

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Final Fantasy XIV Online is estimated to have 47k – 170k players a day. Around 1m – 3m 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.

Star Citizen

Star Citizen is estimated to have 450 – 210k players a day. Around 89k – 9m 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.