Head to head

MU Online vs Runescape

MU Online

Live

57 – 27k daily

Runescape

Live

8k – 28k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

November 2001 · 25 years ago

January 2001 · 26 years ago

Daily players

57 – 27k

8k – 28k

Estimated players

21814%

108.8k1.1%

Available on

Windows

Browser
Windows
Android
macOS
Linux
iOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

MU OnlineRunescape

MU Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~231	Down 2.9%
August 2026	~238	Up 6.7%
July 2026	~223	—

Runescape

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~108.4k	Up 0.3%
August 2026	~108.1k	Up 1.2%
July 2026	~106.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

MU Online: 976Up 2.8%
Runescape: 403.2kUp 0.7%

Runescape currently has about 413× as many subreddit members as MU Online — 403,235 vs 976.

Twitch viewers

MU Online: 665Up 41%
Runescape: 1kDown 17%

Runescape currently has about 1.5× as many live Twitch viewers as MU Online — 1,023 vs 665.

Steam concurrent players

MU Online: —
Runescape: 3kUp 1.5%

Runescape currently has 2,975 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for MU Online.

Discord members

MU Online: —
Runescape: 127.9kUp 1.9%

Runescape currently has 127,896 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for MU Online.

YouTube subscribers

MU Online: —
Runescape: 265kUp 0.4%

Runescape currently has 265,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for MU Online.

How these estimates are made

MU Online

MU Online is estimated to have 57 – 27k players a day. Around 16k – 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.

Runescape

Runescape is estimated to have 8k – 28k players a day. Around 470k – 1m 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.