Head to head

Phantasy Star Online 2 vs Phantasy Star Universe

Phantasy Star Online 2

Released

~71k daily · 42k – 120k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Phantasy Star Universe

Released

~380 daily · 87 – 1.1k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

VerdictPhantasy Star Online 2 has ~187× Phantasy Star Universe's daily players (~71k vs ~380, as of Nov 9, 2026). Phantasy Star Universe's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

Released

July 2012 · 14 years ago

August 2006 · 20 years ago

Est. daily players

~71k42k – 120kMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

~38087 – 1.1kLow confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Available on

PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Phantasy Star Online 2Phantasy Star Universe

Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.

Steam concurrent players

Phantasy Star Online 2: 791Up 5.2% past week
Phantasy Star Universe: —

Phantasy Star Online 2 currently has 791 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Universe.

Reddit members

Phantasy Star Online 2: 69.3k
Phantasy Star Universe: 2.7k

Phantasy Star Online 2 currently has about 25× as many subreddit members as Phantasy Star Universe — 69,329 vs 2,746.

YouTube subscribers

Phantasy Star Online 2: 44.8k
Phantasy Star Universe: —

Phantasy Star Online 2 currently has 44,800 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Universe.

Twitch viewers

Phantasy Star Online 2: —
Phantasy Star Universe: 17

Phantasy Star Universe currently has 17 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online 2.

How these estimates are made

Phantasy Star Online 2

We estimate that about 71,000 people play Phantasy Star Online 2 on a typical day (most likely between 42,000 and 120,000), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 8,800,000 accounts (between 5,700,000 and 13,000,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: medium — Steam covers part of the player base, or several community signals agree.

Phantasy Star Universe

We estimate that about 380 people play Phantasy Star Universe on a typical day (most likely between 87 and 1,100), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 110,000 accounts (between 39,000 and 260,000) have played it at some point. Phantasy Star Universe publishes no Steam player data, so the estimate is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. Confidence: low — a community-size model, not a measurement.

How we estimate