Head to head

ImperiumAO vs MapleStory

ImperiumAO

Live

9 – 4k daily

MapleStory

Live

21k – 73k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

March 2004 · 23 years ago

April 2003 · 23 years ago

Daily players

9 – 4k

21k – 73k

Estimated players

3.4k11%

75.8k7.3%

Available on

Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Side View

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

ImperiumAOMapleStory

ImperiumAO

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~3.7k	Down 2.9%
August 2026	~3.8k	Down 1.3%
July 2026	~3.8k	—

MapleStory

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~80k	Down 1.8%
August 2026	~81.5k	Down 0.2%
July 2026	~81.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

ImperiumAO: 14.4kDown 0.5%
MapleStory: 129.3kUp 1.2%

MapleStory currently has about 9× as many Discord members as ImperiumAO — 129,337 vs 14,448.

Twitch viewers

ImperiumAO: 0
MapleStory: 4.3kDown 28%

ImperiumAO currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while MapleStory has 4,291.

YouTube subscribers

ImperiumAO: 2.4k
MapleStory: 182k

MapleStory currently has about 77× as many YouTube subscribers as ImperiumAO — 182,000 vs 2,370.

Steam concurrent players

ImperiumAO: —
MapleStory: 10.1kDown 2.7%

MapleStory currently has 10,055 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for ImperiumAO.

Reddit members

ImperiumAO: —
MapleStory: 150.1kUp 0.7%

MapleStory currently has 150,091 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for ImperiumAO.

How these estimates are made

ImperiumAO

ImperiumAO is estimated to have 9 – 4k players a day. Around 5k – 470k 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.

MapleStory

MapleStory is estimated to have 21k – 73k players a day. Around 290k – 740k 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.