Head to head

Need for Speed: World vs Skate.

Need for Speed: World

Live

10 – 5k daily

Skate.

Live

8k – 29k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

July 2010 · 16 years ago

September 2025 · 1 year ago

Daily players

10 – 5k

8k – 29k

Estimated players

—93%

47.8k8.5%

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Need for Speed: WorldSkate.

Need for Speed: World

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~1	Down 86%
September 2026	~7	Up 250%
August 2026	~2
July 2026	~2	—

Skate.

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~47.8k	Down 4.1%
September 2026	~49.8k	Down 3.2%
August 2026	~51.5k	Down 0.7%
July 2026	~51.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Twitch viewers

Need for Speed: World: 0Down 100%
Skate.: 40Down 9.1%

Need for Speed: World currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Skate. has 40.

Steam concurrent players

Need for Speed: World: —
Skate.: 2.7kUp 17%

Skate. currently has 2,720 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: World.

Discord members

Need for Speed: World: —
Skate.: 141.6kDown 0.2%

Skate. currently has 141,640 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: World.

How these estimates are made

Need for Speed: World

Need for Speed: World is estimated to have 10 – 5k players a day. Around 10k – 930k 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.

Skate.

Skate. is estimated to have 8k – 29k players a day. Around 1m – 3m 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.