Head to head

MapleStory vs Perfect World

MapleStory

Live

26k – 90k daily

Perfect World

Live

8 – 4k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2003 · 23 years ago

July 2005 · 21 years ago

Daily players

26k – 90k

8 – 4k

Estimated players

80k1.5%

6821.6%

Available on

Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Windows

Perspectives

Side View

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

MapleStoryPerfect World

MapleStory

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

Perfect World

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~670	Up 3.1%
July 2026	~650	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

MapleStory: 11.2kDown 5.0%
Perfect World: —

MapleStory currently has 11,198 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Perfect World.

Discord members

MapleStory: 128.5kUp 2.4%
Perfect World: 2.2kUp 0.1%

MapleStory currently has about 59× as many Discord members as Perfect World — 128,510 vs 2,175.

Reddit members

MapleStory: 149.7kUp 0.6%
Perfect World: 1.2kUp 1.8%

MapleStory currently has about 124× as many subreddit members as Perfect World — 149,731 vs 1,205.

Twitch viewers

MapleStory: 3.3kDown 47%
Perfect World: 7Down 86%

MapleStory currently has about 465× as many live Twitch viewers as Perfect World — 3,254 vs 7.

YouTube subscribers

MapleStory: 182k
Perfect World: —

MapleStory currently has 182,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Perfect World.

How these estimates are made

MapleStory

MapleStory is estimated to have 26k – 90k 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.

Perfect World

Perfect World is estimated to have 8 – 4k players a day. Around 5k – 480k 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.