Head to head

Highrise vs Ultima Online

Highrise

Live

880 – 3k daily

Ultima Online

Live

57 – 27k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2025 · 11 months ago

September 1997 · 29 years ago

Daily players

880 – 3k

57 – 27k

Estimated players

38k0.7%

2.2k0.4%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

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Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

HighriseUltima Online

Highrise

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~38k
August 2026	~37.9k
July 2026	~38k	—

Ultima Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~2.2k	Up 2.2%
August 2026	~2.2k	Up 16%
July 2026	~1.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Highrise: 268Up 29%
Ultima Online: —

Highrise currently has 268 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

Discord members

Highrise: 173.7k
Ultima Online: —

Highrise currently has 173,679 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

YouTube subscribers

Highrise: 16.6kUp 0.6%
Ultima Online: 3.7kUp 0.8%

Highrise currently has about 4.5× as many YouTube subscribers as Ultima Online — 16,600 vs 3,730.

Reddit members

Highrise: —
Ultima Online: 18.3kUp 1.5%

Ultima Online currently has 18,274 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Highrise.

Twitch viewers

Highrise: —
Ultima Online: 118Down 2.5%

Ultima Online currently has 118 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Highrise.

How these estimates are made

Highrise

Highrise is estimated to have 880 – 3k players a day. Around 13k – 32k 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.

Ultima Online

Ultima Online is estimated to have 57 – 27k 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.