Head to head

Guild Wars vs Phantasy Star Online

Guild Wars

Live

Phantasy Star Online

Live

39 – 18k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2005 · 21 years ago

December 2000 · 26 years ago

Daily players

No population data

39 – 18k

Estimated players

28k0.4%

Available on

Windows

Platforms

Windows

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Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild WarsPhantasy Star Online

Guild Wars

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~28k	Up 4.8%
July 2026	~26.7k	—

Phantasy Star Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~2	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Guild Wars: 65kUp 0.3%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Guild Wars currently has 65,009 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars: 215kUp 0.5%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Guild Wars currently has 215,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars: —
Phantasy Star Online: 18

Phantasy Star Online currently has 18 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.

Phantasy Star Online

Phantasy Star Online is estimated to have 39 – 18k players a day. Around 20k – 2m 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.