Head to head

NosTale vs PlanetSide 2

NosTale

Live

890 – 3k daily

PlanetSide 2

Live

1k – 4k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2006 · 20 years ago

November 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

890 – 3k

1k – 4k

Estimated players

10k6.0%

26.7k0.2%

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

NosTalePlanetSide 2

NosTale

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~10.2k	Up 8.1%
August 2026	~9.4k	Down 0.6%
July 2026	~9.5k	—

PlanetSide 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~26.7k
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.

Steam concurrent players

NosTale: 358Up 12%
PlanetSide 2: 572Up 55%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 1.6× as many peak concurrent Steam players as NosTale — 572 vs 358.

Discord members

NosTale: 31.5kUp 1.2%
PlanetSide 2: —

NosTale currently has 31,509 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide 2.

Reddit members

NosTale: 3.7kUp 1.4%
PlanetSide 2: 91.6kUp 0.2%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 25× as many subreddit members as NosTale — 91,603 vs 3,728.

Twitch viewers

NosTale: 108Up 468%
PlanetSide 2: 32Down 3.0%

NosTale currently has about 3.4× as many live Twitch viewers as PlanetSide 2 — 108 vs 32.

YouTube subscribers

NosTale: 6.6kUp 0.3%
PlanetSide 2: 98.4kDown 0.1%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 15× as many YouTube subscribers as NosTale — 98,400 vs 6,600.

How these estimates are made

NosTale

NosTale is estimated to have 890 – 3k players a day. Around 84k – 220k 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.

PlanetSide 2

PlanetSide 2 is estimated to have 1k – 4k 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.