Head to head

Need for Speed: World vs Star Citizen

Need for Speed: World

Live

Star Citizen

Live

340 – 160k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

July 2010 · 16 years ago

August 2013 · 13 years ago

Daily players

No population data

340 – 160k

Estimated players

—100%

161.5k2.9%

Available on

Windows

Windows
Linux

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Need for Speed: WorldStar Citizen

Need for Speed: World

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~2
August 2026	~2
July 2026	~2	—

Star Citizen

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~164k	Up 0.2%
August 2026	~163.7k	Down 0.6%
July 2026	~164.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Twitch viewers

Need for Speed: World: 21Up 200%
Star Citizen: 4.3kDown 10%

Star Citizen currently has about 204× as many live Twitch viewers as Need for Speed: World — 4,289 vs 21.

Discord members

Need for Speed: World: —
Star Citizen: 162.3k

Star Citizen currently has 162,334 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: World.

Reddit members

Need for Speed: World: —
Star Citizen: 529.9kUp 1.0%

Star Citizen currently has 529,911 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: World.

YouTube subscribers

Need for Speed: World: —
Star Citizen: 575kUp 0.2%

Star Citizen currently has 575,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: World.

How these estimates are made

Need for Speed: World

Not enough data collected to estimate this game yet.

Star Citizen

Star Citizen is estimated to have 340 – 160k players a day. Around 78k – 8m 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.