Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs War Thunder

Guild Wars 2

Live

19k – 66k daily

War Thunder

Live

190k – 680k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

January 2013 · 14 years ago

Daily players

19k – 66k

190k – 680k

Estimated players

86.7k1.1%

367.1k

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2War Thunder

Guild Wars 2

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

War Thunder

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~362.3k	Up 0.6%
July 2026	~360.3k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 6.2kDown 5.2%
War Thunder: 70.6kUp 0.9%

War Thunder currently has about 11× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Guild Wars 2 — 70,631 vs 6,225.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.8kUp 0.3%
War Thunder: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,786 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for War Thunder.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 426.6kUp 0.5%
War Thunder: 561.7kUp 0.6%

War Thunder currently has about 1.3× as many subreddit members as Guild Wars 2 — 561,740 vs 426,601.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 1.3kDown 77%
War Thunder: 5.5kUp 174%

War Thunder currently has about 4.4× as many live Twitch viewers as Guild Wars 2 — 5,512 vs 1,261.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 216kUp 0.9%
War Thunder: 1.9mUp 0.5%

War Thunder currently has about 8.9× as many YouTube subscribers as Guild Wars 2 — 1,930,000 vs 216,000.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 19k – 66k 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.

War Thunder

War Thunder is estimated to have 190k – 680k players a day. Around 8m – 21m 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.