Head to head

Old School RuneScape vs Persist Online

Old School RuneScape

Live

4k – 15k daily

Persist Online

TBA

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

UNKNOWN

Released

February 2013 · 14 years ago

To be announced

Daily players

4k – 15k

No population data

Estimated players

258.5k2.0%

1.6k2.0%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Android
iOS

Windows
macOS
Linux

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Old School RuneScapePersist Online

Old School RuneScape

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~258.5k	Up 17%
July 2026	~220.9k	—

Persist Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~1.7k	Down 2.3%
July 2026	~1.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Old School RuneScape: 1.7kUp 13%
Persist Online: —

Old School RuneScape currently has 1,694 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Persist Online.

Discord members

Old School RuneScape: 274.2kUp 1.0%
Persist Online: 5.4k

Old School RuneScape currently has about 51× as many Discord members as Persist Online — 274,213 vs 5,392.

Reddit members

Old School RuneScape: 1.4mUp 0.9%
Persist Online: 39

Old School RuneScape currently has about 35691× as many subreddit members as Persist Online — 1,391,949 vs 39.

Twitch viewers

Old School RuneScape: 6.2kDown 4.5%
Persist Online: —

Old School RuneScape currently has 6,165 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Persist Online.

YouTube subscribers

Old School RuneScape: 264kUp 0.8%
Persist Online: 725Up 0.4%

Old School RuneScape currently has about 364× as many YouTube subscribers as Persist Online — 264,000 vs 725.

How these estimates are made

Old School RuneScape

Old School RuneScape is estimated to have 4k – 15k players a day. Around 370k – 950k 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.

Persist Online

Persist Online is estimated to have 3 – 2k players a day. Around 3k – 250k 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.