Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs Star Citizen

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 46k daily

Star Citizen

Live

450 – 210k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

August 2013 · 13 years ago

Daily players

13k – 46k

450 – 210k

Estimated players

88.2k3.2%

170.7k5.7%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
Linux

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2Star Citizen

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~86.2k
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.9%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

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

Guild Wars 2: 4.7kDown 29%
Star Citizen: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 4,745 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Star Citizen.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.5kDown 0.4%
Star Citizen: 162.2kDown 0.1%

Star Citizen currently has about 3.4× as many Discord members as Guild Wars 2 — 162,154 vs 47,550.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 429.4kUp 0.4%
Star Citizen: 533.5kUp 0.6%

Star Citizen currently has about 1.2× as many subreddit members as Guild Wars 2 — 533,506 vs 429,412.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 4.7kDown 73%
Star Citizen: 10.2kUp 362%

Star Citizen currently has about 2.2× as many live Twitch viewers as Guild Wars 2 — 10,181 vs 4,697.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 219k
Star Citizen: 576kUp 0.2%

Star Citizen currently has about 2.6× as many YouTube subscribers as Guild Wars 2 — 576,000 vs 219,000.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 13k – 46k players a day. Around 510k – 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.

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.