Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs Viking Rise

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 44k daily

Viking Rise

Live

2k – 7k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

March 2023 · 4 years ago

Daily players

13k – 44k

2k – 7k

Estimated players

84.5k1.3%

68.9k0.9%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2Viking Rise

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~84.7k	Down 1.8%
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.9%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

Viking Rise

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~69k	Down 0.3%
September 2026	~69.2k	Up 0.4%
August 2026	~68.9k	Up 15%
July 2026	~59.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 4.5kDown 16%
Viking Rise: 701Down 5.7%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 6.4× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Viking Rise — 4,473 vs 701.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.6kDown 0.4%
Viking Rise: 263.4k

Viking Rise currently has about 5.5× as many Discord members as Guild Wars 2 — 263,439 vs 47,615.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 428.7kUp 0.4%
Viking Rise: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 428,673 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Viking Rise.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 681Down 59%
Viking Rise: 60Down 78%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 11× as many live Twitch viewers as Viking Rise — 681 vs 60.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 219kUp 0.9%
Viking Rise: 113kUp 0.9%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 1.9× as many YouTube subscribers as Viking Rise — 219,000 vs 113,000.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 13k – 44k 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.

Viking Rise

Viking Rise is estimated to have 2k – 7k players a day. Around 28k – 71k 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.