Head to head

Path of Exile vs Phantasy Star Online

Path of Exile

Live

45k – 160k daily

Phantasy Star Online

Live

23 – 11k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2013 · 13 years ago

December 2000 · 26 years ago

Daily players

45k – 160k

23 – 11k

Estimated players

280.4k0.8%

253%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox
macOS

Platforms

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Perspectives

Isometric

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Path of ExilePhantasy Star Online

Path of Exile

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~272.2k	Down 5.7%
August 2026	~288.8k	Down 1.5%
July 2026	~293.3k	—

Phantasy Star Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~4
August 2026	~4	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Path of Exile: 18.1kDown 79%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Path of Exile currently has 18,120 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Discord members

Path of Exile: 264.1kUp 0.3%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Path of Exile currently has 264,149 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Reddit members

Path of Exile: 1.1mUp 0.5%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Path of Exile currently has 1,082,904 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Twitch viewers

Path of Exile: 32.7kDown 30%
Phantasy Star Online: 8Down 53%

Path of Exile currently has about 4086× as many live Twitch viewers as Phantasy Star Online — 32,688 vs 8.

YouTube subscribers

Path of Exile: 429kUp 0.7%
Phantasy Star Online: —

Path of Exile currently has 429,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

How these estimates are made

Path of Exile

Path of Exile is estimated to have 45k – 160k players a day. Around 3m – 8m 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 23 – 11k players a day. Around 15k – 2m 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.