Head to head

DC Universe Online vs Phantasy Star Universe

DC Universe Online

Live

2k – 5k daily

Phantasy Star Universe

Live

13 – 6k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

January 2011 · 16 years ago

August 2006 · 20 years ago

Daily players

2k – 5k

13 – 6k

Estimated players

24.5k1.3%

2640.6%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox
Nintendo

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

DC Universe OnlinePhantasy Star Universe

DC Universe Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~24.1k	Down 0.3%
August 2026	~24.2k	Up 10%
July 2026	~21.9k	—

Phantasy Star Universe

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~261	Up 5.2%
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

DC Universe Online: 587Up 2.6%
Phantasy Star Universe: —

DC Universe Online currently has 587 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Universe.

Discord members

DC Universe Online: 28.8kUp 1.4%
Phantasy Star Universe: —

DC Universe Online currently has 28,778 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Universe.

Reddit members

DC Universe Online: 31kUp 1.9%
Phantasy Star Universe: 2.6kUp 5.6%

DC Universe Online currently has about 12× as many subreddit members as Phantasy Star Universe — 30,976 vs 2,642.

Twitch viewers

DC Universe Online: 40Down 33%
Phantasy Star Universe: 251Up 6175%

Phantasy Star Universe currently has about 6.3× as many live Twitch viewers as DC Universe Online — 251 vs 40.

YouTube subscribers

DC Universe Online: 109k
Phantasy Star Universe: —

DC Universe Online currently has 109,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Universe.

How these estimates are made

DC Universe Online

DC Universe Online is estimated to have 2k – 5k players a day. Around 390k – 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.