Pikmin Bloom

VS

Ark: Survival Evolved

Pikmin Bloom is a mobile adventure and augmented reality game developed by Niantic Labs and published by Nintendo, released in 2021. While it launched with modest traction due to the recognizable Pikmin brand and Niantic's mobile expertise, its player base has been a fraction of Niantic’s previous hit, Pokémon GO. By 2024, the game maintains a smaller, loyal daily active user base, likely between 80,000 and 120,000—a reasonable outcome for a walking-based AR game with moderate content cadence.

Ark: Survival Evolved is a popular survival sandbox game released in 2017 and available on nearly all platforms. Its peak was several years ago, but it maintains a stable community thanks to official and community servers, modding, and occasional event content. While numbers have declined since launch, the game still sees tens of thousands of daily players across PC and consoles, especially due to its ongoing updates and active mod scene. However, it is not an MMO as it does not feature a single, large-scale persistent world—servers are capped and players are sharded.