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Milky Way Idle vs Pixel Starships

VerdictMilky Way Idle has ~4.5× Pixel Starships's daily players (~3.8k vs ~850, as of Nov 13, 2026).

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Status

Released
Released

Released

April 2023 · 4 years ago
January 2016 · 11 years ago

Est. daily players

~3.8k2.7k – 5.3kDown 3.6% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 13, 2026
~850610 – 1.2kUp 4.6% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 13, 2026

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Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Milky Way IdlePixel Starships

Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.

Steam concurrent players

Milky Way Idle
784Down 10% past week
Pixel Starships
190Up 9.2% past week

Milky Way Idle currently has about 4.1× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Pixel Starships — 784 vs 190.

Discord members

Milky Way Idle
10k
Pixel Starships
20k

Pixel Starships currently has about 2× as many Discord members as Milky Way Idle — 20,011 vs 10,002.

Reddit members

Milky Way Idle
604Up 0.7% past week
Pixel Starships
9.4kUp 0.1% past week

Pixel Starships currently has about 16× as many subreddit members as Milky Way Idle — 9,362 vs 604.

Twitch viewers

Milky Way Idle
5
Pixel Starships
2

Milky Way Idle currently has about 2.5× as many live Twitch viewers as Pixel Starships — 5 vs 2.

YouTube subscribers

Milky Way Idle
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Pixel Starships
1.1k

Pixel Starships currently has 1,120 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Milky Way Idle.

How these estimates are made

Milky Way Idle

We estimate that about 3,800 people play Milky Way Idle on a typical day (most likely between 2,700 and 5,300), based on data from Nov 13, 2026. Around 97,000 accounts (between 76,000 and 120,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: medium — Steam covers part of the player base, or several community signals agree.

Pixel Starships

We estimate that about 850 people play Pixel Starships on a typical day (most likely between 610 and 1,200), based on data from Nov 13, 2026. Around 120,000 accounts (between 90,000 and 150,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: medium — Steam covers part of the player base, or several community signals agree.

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