Head to head

Pixel Starships 2 vs PlanetSide 2

Pixel Starships 2

Live

58 – 200 daily

PlanetSide 2

Live

1k – 4k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2025 · 1 year ago

November 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

58 – 200

1k – 4k

Estimated players

5k2.7%

26.7k

Available on

Windows
macOS
Android

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

Perspectives

Side View

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Pixel Starships 2PlanetSide 2

Pixel Starships 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~5k
August 2026	~5k	Up 19%
July 2026	~4.2k	—

PlanetSide 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~26.8k
August 2026	~26.7k	Up 12%
July 2026	~23.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Pixel Starships 2: 20Down 17%
PlanetSide 2: 266Down 62%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 13× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Pixel Starships 2 — 266 vs 20.

Discord members

Pixel Starships 2: 20.2k
PlanetSide 2: —

Pixel Starships 2 currently has 20,231 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide 2.

YouTube subscribers

Pixel Starships 2: 556Up 1.5%
PlanetSide 2: 98.4kDown 0.1%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 177× as many YouTube subscribers as Pixel Starships 2 — 98,400 vs 556.

Reddit members

Pixel Starships 2: —
PlanetSide 2: 91.7kUp 0.2%

PlanetSide 2 currently has 91,720 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Pixel Starships 2.

Twitch viewers

Pixel Starships 2: —
PlanetSide 2: 39Down 20%

PlanetSide 2 currently has 39 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Pixel Starships 2.

How these estimates are made

Pixel Starships 2

Pixel Starships 2 is estimated to have 58 – 200 players a day. Around 13k – 32k 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.

PlanetSide 2

PlanetSide 2 is estimated to have 1k – 4k players a day. Around 1m – 3m 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.