Head to head

Old School RuneScape vs Project Ascension

Old School RuneScape

Live

5k – 16k daily

Project Ascension

Live

2 – 1k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

February 2013 · 14 years ago

December 2016 · 10 years ago

Daily players

5k – 16k

2 – 1k

Estimated players

273.7k4.7%

4.9k

Available on

Windows
macOS
Android
iOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Old School RuneScapeProject Ascension

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	—

Project Ascension

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~4.9k	Up 1.8%
September 2026	~4.8k	Up 5.6%
August 2026	~4.6k	Up 1.0%
July 2026	~4.5k	—

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%
Project Ascension: —

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

Discord members

Old School RuneScape: 285.7kUp 2.7%
Project Ascension: 342Down 3.9%

Old School RuneScape currently has about 835× as many Discord members as Project Ascension — 285,738 vs 342.

Reddit members

Old School RuneScape: 1.4mUp 0.6%
Project Ascension: —

Old School RuneScape currently has 1,422,905 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Project Ascension.

Twitch viewers

Old School RuneScape: 9.9kUp 11%
Project Ascension: —

Old School RuneScape currently has 9,888 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Project Ascension.

YouTube subscribers

Old School RuneScape: 268kUp 0.8%
Project Ascension: 48.2kUp 1.3%

Old School RuneScape currently has about 5.6× as many YouTube subscribers as Project Ascension — 268,000 vs 48,200.

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.

Project Ascension

Project Ascension is estimated to have 2 – 1k players a day. Around 2k – 190k 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.