Head to head

FreeSO vs Runescape

FreeSO

Live

7 – 3k daily

Runescape

Live

6k – 21k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

January 2017 · 10 years ago

January 2001 · 26 years ago

Daily players

7 – 3k

6k – 21k

Estimated players

2.3k1.3%

109.7k

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux

Browser
Windows
Android
macOS
Linux
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

FreeSORunescape

FreeSO

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.3k	Down 0.5%
September 2026	~2.4k	Down 1.0%
August 2026	~2.4k	Down 0.1%
July 2026	~2.4k	—

Runescape

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~109.3k	Up 1.9%
September 2026	~107.3k	Down 0.8%
August 2026	~108.1k	Up 1.2%
July 2026	~106.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

FreeSO: 9.2kDown 3.2%
Runescape: 127.7kDown 0.5%

Runescape currently has about 14× as many Discord members as FreeSO — 127,684 vs 9,198.

Reddit members

FreeSO: 514Up 0.2%
Runescape: 410kUp 1.1%

Runescape currently has about 798× as many subreddit members as FreeSO — 409,959 vs 514.

Steam concurrent players

FreeSO: —
Runescape: 2.4kUp 4.6%

Runescape currently has 2,386 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for FreeSO.

Twitch viewers

FreeSO: —
Runescape: 395Down 79%

Runescape currently has 395 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for FreeSO.

YouTube subscribers

FreeSO: —
Runescape: 267kUp 0.8%

Runescape currently has 267,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for FreeSO.

How these estimates are made

FreeSO

FreeSO is estimated to have 7 – 3k players a day. Around 5k – 460k 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.

Runescape

Runescape is estimated to have 6k – 21k players a day. Around 470k – 1m 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.