Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs Star Citizen

Guild Wars 2

Live

16k – 57k daily

Star Citizen

Live

360 – 170k 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

16k – 57k

360 – 170k

Estimated players

84.8k1.0%

160.7k2.7%

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
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

Star Citizen

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~163.9k	Down 0.5%
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 25%
Star Citizen: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 4,713 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Star Citizen.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.8kUp 0.2%
Star Citizen: 162.5k

Star Citizen currently has about 3.4× as many Discord members as Guild Wars 2 — 162,501 vs 47,792.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 425.5kUp 0.1%
Star Citizen: 525.1kUp 0.2%

Star Citizen currently has about 1.2× as many subreddit members as Guild Wars 2 — 525,070 vs 425,486.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 841Down 25%
Star Citizen: 2.4kDown 55%

Star Citizen currently has about 2.8× as many live Twitch viewers as Guild Wars 2 — 2,378 vs 841.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 215k
Star Citizen: 574k

Star Citizen currently has about 2.7× as many YouTube subscribers as Guild Wars 2 — 574,000 vs 215,000.

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.

Star Citizen

Star Citizen is estimated to have 360 – 170k players a day. Around 79k – 8m 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.