Head to head

Phantasy Star Online 2 vs Phantasy Star Universe

Phantasy Star Online 2

Live

2k – 8k daily

Phantasy Star Universe

Live

13 – 6k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

July 2012 · 14 years ago

August 2006 · 20 years ago

Daily players

2k – 8k

13 – 6k

Estimated players

14.3k

2630.4%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Phantasy Star Online 2Phantasy Star Universe

Phantasy Star Online 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~14.3k
August 2026	~14.4k	Up 14%
July 2026	~12.6k	—

Phantasy Star Universe

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~259	Up 4.4%
August 2026	~248	Up 23%
July 2026	~201	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Phantasy Star Online 2: 949Down 8.7%
Phantasy Star Universe: —

Phantasy Star Online 2 currently has 949 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Universe.

Reddit members

Phantasy Star Online 2: 69.2kUp 0.1%
Phantasy Star Universe: 2.6kUp 5.5%

Phantasy Star Online 2 currently has about 26× as many subreddit members as Phantasy Star Universe — 69,187 vs 2,629.

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: 0Down 100%

Phantasy Star Universe currently has 0 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online 2.

How these estimates are made

Phantasy Star Online 2

Phantasy Star Online 2 is estimated to have 2k – 8k players a day. Around 430k – 1m 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 Universe

Phantasy Star Universe is estimated to have 13 – 6k players a day. Around 10k – 950k 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.