Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs Rift

Guild Wars 2

Live

16k – 57k daily

Rift

Live

550 – 2k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

March 2011 · 15 years ago

Daily players

16k – 57k

550 – 2k

Estimated players

84.8k1.0%

3.5k0.3%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
Linux

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2Rift

Guild Wars 2

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

Rift

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~3.5k
July 2026	~3.5k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 4.7kDown 25%
Rift: 190Down 1.6%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 25× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Rift — 4,713 vs 190.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.8kUp 0.2%
Rift: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,792 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Rift.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 425.5kUp 0.1%
Rift: 10.9kUp 0.3%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 39× as many subreddit members as Rift — 425,486 vs 10,892.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 841Down 25%
Rift: 2

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 421× as many live Twitch viewers as Rift — 841 vs 2.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 215k
Rift: 11.4k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 19× as many YouTube subscribers as Rift — 215,000 vs 11,400.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 16k – 57k 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.