Head to head

Path of Exile 2 vs Realms of Despair

Path of Exile 2

Live

39k – 140k daily

Realms of Despair

Live

0 – 130 daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2024 · 2 years ago

December 1994 · 32 years ago

Daily players

39k – 140k

0 – 130

Estimated players

74k0.9%

Available on

Windows
macOS
PlayStation

Windows
macOS
Linux

Platforms

Perspectives

Isometric

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Path of Exile 2Realms of Despair

Path of Exile 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~77.8k	Down 25%
September 2026	~103.8k	Up 30%
August 2026	~79.8k	Up 101%
July 2026	~39.7k	—

Realms of Despair

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~1
September 2026	~1
August 2026	~1
July 2026	~1	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Path of Exile 2: 10.2kDown 71%
Realms of Despair: —

Path of Exile 2 currently has 10,157 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Realms of Despair.

Twitch viewers

Path of Exile 2: 939Down 68%
Realms of Despair: —

Path of Exile 2 currently has 939 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Realms of Despair.

YouTube subscribers

Path of Exile 2: 431k
Realms of Despair: 10

Path of Exile 2 currently has about 43100× as many YouTube subscribers as Realms of Despair — 431,000 vs 10.

How these estimates are made

Path of Exile 2

Path of Exile 2 is estimated to have 39k – 140k players a day. Around 3m – 7m 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.

Realms of Despair

Realms of Despair is estimated to have 0 – 130 players a day. Around 180 – 23k 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.