Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs The Cycle

Guild Wars 2

Live

11k – 40k daily

The Cycle

Live

10 – 35 daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

September 2019 · 7 years ago

Daily players

11k – 40k

10 – 35

Estimated players

87k0.4%

6.9k

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2The Cycle

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~86.3k	Down 0.2%
October 2026	~86.4k	Up 0.2%
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.9%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

The Cycle

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~6.9k
October 2026	~6.9k
September 2026	~6.9k
August 2026	~6.9k
July 2026	~6.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 3.3kDown 35%
The Cycle: 5Up 400%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 652× as many peak concurrent Steam players as The Cycle — 3,258 vs 5.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.4kDown 0.4%
The Cycle: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,433 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for The Cycle.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 430.3kUp 0.4%
The Cycle: 6.1k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 71× as many subreddit members as The Cycle — 430,311 vs 6,051.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 354Down 69%
The Cycle: 0

Guild Wars 2 currently has 354 live Twitch viewers, while The Cycle has 0.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 219k
The Cycle: 17.3k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 13× as many YouTube subscribers as The Cycle — 219,000 vs 17,300.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 11k – 40k 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.

The Cycle

The Cycle is estimated to have 10 – 35 players a day. Around 720k – 2m 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.