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MU Online vs Second Life

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Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE
ACTIVE

Released

November 2001 · 25 years ago
June 2003 · 23 years ago

Daily players

76 – 36k
63 – 29k

Estimated players

366Down 6.2%
8.5k

Available on

  • Windows
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

MU OnlineSecond Life

MU Online

Average monthly estimated players
MonthEstimated playersChange
September 2026~291Up 22%
August 2026~238Up 6.7%
July 2026~223—

Second Life

Average monthly estimated players
MonthEstimated playersChange
September 2026~8.5kUp 0.3%
August 2026~8.5kUp 0.2%
July 2026~8.4k—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

MU Online
1.1kUp 8.4%
Second Life
25.7kUp 0.8%

Second Life currently has about 24× as many subreddit members as MU Online — 25,680 vs 1,054.

Twitch viewers

MU Online
1.3kUp 126%
Second Life
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MU Online currently has 1,257 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Second Life.

YouTube subscribers

MU Online
—
Second Life
59.2kUp 0.2%

Second Life currently has 59,200 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for MU Online.

How these estimates are made

MU Online

MU Online is estimated to have 76 – 36k players a day. Around 18k – 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.

Second Life

Second Life is estimated to have 63 – 29k players a day. Around 28k – 3m 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.

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