Head to head

Old School RuneScape vs Phantasy Star Online

Old School RuneScape

Live

5k – 16k daily

Phantasy Star Online

Live

17 – 8k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

February 2013 · 14 years ago

December 2000 · 26 years ago

Daily players

5k – 16k

17 – 8k

Estimated players

273.7k4.7%

164%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Android
iOS

Platforms

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Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Old School RuneScapePhantasy Star Online

Old School RuneScape

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~266k	Up 2.0%
September 2026	~260.8k	Up 0.7%
August 2026	~259k	Up 17%
July 2026	~220.9k	—

Phantasy Star Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2
September 2026	~2	Down 50%
August 2026	~4	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Old School RuneScape: 1.4kDown 5.7%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Old School RuneScape currently has 1,363 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Discord members

Old School RuneScape: 285.7kUp 2.7%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Old School RuneScape currently has 285,738 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Reddit members

Old School RuneScape: 1.4mUp 0.6%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Old School RuneScape currently has 1,422,940 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Twitch viewers

Old School RuneScape: 10kUp 13%
Phantasy Star Online: 4Down 90%

Old School RuneScape currently has about 2499× as many live Twitch viewers as Phantasy Star Online — 9,994 vs 4.

YouTube subscribers

Old School RuneScape: 268kUp 0.8%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Old School RuneScape currently has 268,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

How these estimates are made

Old School RuneScape

Old School RuneScape is estimated to have 5k – 16k players a day. Around 370k – 960k 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.

Phantasy Star Online

Phantasy Star Online is estimated to have 17 – 8k players a day. Around 13k – 1m 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.