Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs Highrise

Guild Wars 2

Live

12k – 41k daily

Highrise

Live

540 – 2k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

October 2025 · 11 months ago

Daily players

12k – 41k

540 – 2k

Estimated players

85.6k0.5%

38k

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2Highrise

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~86.3k	Up 1.0%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

Highrise

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~38k
August 2026	~37.9k
July 2026	~38k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 3.9kDown 28%
Highrise: 217Up 19%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 18× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Highrise — 3,925 vs 217.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.7kDown 0.1%
Highrise: 173.6k

Highrise currently has about 3.6× as many Discord members as Guild Wars 2 — 173,604 vs 47,678.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 428.3kUp 0.5%
Highrise: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 428,299 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Highrise.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 1.2kUp 13%
Highrise: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 1,153 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Highrise.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 219kUp 1.9%
Highrise: 16.6kUp 0.6%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 13× as many YouTube subscribers as Highrise — 219,000 vs 16,600.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 12k – 41k players a day. Around 500k – 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.

Highrise

Highrise is estimated to have 540 – 2k players a day. Around 13k – 33k 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.