Head to head

Guild Wars vs Path of Exile

Guild Wars

Live

Path of Exile

Live

25k – 87k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2005 · 21 years ago

October 2013 · 13 years ago

Daily players

No population data

25k – 87k

Estimated players

28.6k

259.3k4.7%

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox
macOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild WarsPath of Exile

Guild Wars

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~28.5k	Up 1.6%
August 2026	~28k	Up 5.0%
July 2026	~26.7k	—

Path of Exile

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~269.2k	Down 6.8%
August 2026	~288.8k	Down 1.5%
July 2026	~293.3k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Guild Wars: 66.6kUp 1.9%
Path of Exile: 1.1mUp 0.2%

Path of Exile currently has about 16× as many subreddit members as Guild Wars — 1,083,737 vs 66,602.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars: 219kUp 1.9%
Path of Exile: 430kUp 0.9%

Path of Exile currently has about 2× as many YouTube subscribers as Guild Wars — 430,000 vs 219,000.

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars: —
Path of Exile: 10.1kDown 73%

Path of Exile currently has 10,134 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Guild Wars.

Discord members

Guild Wars: —
Path of Exile: 265kUp 0.5%

Path of Exile currently has 264,985 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Guild Wars.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars: —
Path of Exile: 1.1kDown 86%

Path of Exile currently has 1,114 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Guild Wars.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars

Guild Wars is showing no measurable concurrent players on Steam. Around 450 – 1k 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.

Path of Exile

Path of Exile is estimated to have 25k – 87k players a day. Around 3m – 8m 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.