Head to head

Northern Blade vs PlanetSide 2

Northern Blade

Live

1 – 430 daily

PlanetSide 2

Live

2k – 5k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2009 · 17 years ago

November 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

1 – 430

2k – 5k

Estimated players

2980.6%

26.8k

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Northern BladePlanetSide 2

Northern Blade

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~298	Up 1.7%
August 2026	~293	Up 19%
July 2026	~246	—

PlanetSide 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~26.8k
August 2026	~26.7k	Up 12%
July 2026	~23.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Northern Blade: 1.4kUp 0.2%
PlanetSide 2: —

Northern Blade currently has 1,387 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide 2.

YouTube subscribers

Northern Blade: 93
PlanetSide 2: 98.4kDown 0.1%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 1058× as many YouTube subscribers as Northern Blade — 98,400 vs 93.

Steam concurrent players

Northern Blade: —
PlanetSide 2: 422Down 42%

PlanetSide 2 currently has 422 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Northern Blade.

Reddit members

Northern Blade: —
PlanetSide 2: 91.6kUp 0.2%

PlanetSide 2 currently has 91,620 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Northern Blade.

Twitch viewers

Northern Blade: —
PlanetSide 2: 40Down 32%

PlanetSide 2 currently has 40 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Northern Blade.

How these estimates are made

Northern Blade

Northern Blade is estimated to have 1 – 430 players a day. Around 780 – 81k 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.

PlanetSide 2

PlanetSide 2 is estimated to have 2k – 5k 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.