Head to head

Guild Wars vs Star Citizen

Guild Wars

Live

Star Citizen

Live

350 – 160k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2005 · 21 years ago

August 2013 · 13 years ago

Daily players

No population data

350 – 160k

Estimated players

28.6k

163.1k1.9%

Available on

Windows

Windows
Linux

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild WarsStar Citizen

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	—

Star Citizen

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~163.3k	Down 0.2%
August 2026	~163.7k	Down 0.6%
July 2026	~164.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Guild Wars: 66.6kUp 1.9%
Star Citizen: 531kUp 0.8%

Star Citizen currently has about 8× as many subreddit members as Guild Wars — 530,970 vs 66,636.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars: 219kUp 1.9%
Star Citizen: 575k

Star Citizen currently has about 2.6× as many YouTube subscribers as Guild Wars — 575,000 vs 219,000.

Discord members

Guild Wars: —
Star Citizen: 162.3kDown 0.1%

Star Citizen currently has 162,258 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Guild Wars.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars: —
Star Citizen: 3.3kDown 23%

Star Citizen currently has 3,267 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.

Star Citizen

Star Citizen is estimated to have 350 – 160k players a day. Around 79k – 8m 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.