Head to head

Phantasy Star Online 2 vs Realms of Despair

Phantasy Star Online 2

Live

2k – 8k daily

Realms of Despair

Live

0 – 130 daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

July 2012 · 14 years ago

December 1994 · 32 years ago

Daily players

2k – 8k

0 – 130

Estimated players

14.3k0.2%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows
macOS
Linux

Platforms

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Phantasy Star Online 2Realms of Despair

Phantasy Star Online 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~14.3k	Down 0.1%
August 2026	~14.4k	Up 14%
July 2026	~12.6k	—

Realms of Despair

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
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

Phantasy Star Online 2: 779Down 19%
Realms of Despair: —

Phantasy Star Online 2 currently has 779 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Realms of Despair.

Reddit members

Phantasy Star Online 2: 69.2kUp 0.1%
Realms of Despair: —

Phantasy Star Online 2 currently has 69,191 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Realms of Despair.

YouTube subscribers

Phantasy Star Online 2: 44.8k
Realms of Despair: 10

Phantasy Star Online 2 currently has about 4480× as many YouTube subscribers as Realms of Despair — 44,800 vs 10.

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.

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.