Head to head

PlaneShift vs PlanetSide 2

PlaneShift

Live

5 – 18 daily

PlanetSide 2

Live

1k – 4k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2002 · 24 years ago

November 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

5 – 18

1k – 4k

Estimated players

3833.1%

26.7k

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

PlaneShiftPlanetSide 2

PlaneShift

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~398	Down 0.3%
August 2026	~399	Down 0.5%
July 2026	~401	—

PlanetSide 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~26.7k
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

PlaneShift: 1Down 67%
PlanetSide 2: 295Down 28%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 295× as many peak concurrent Steam players as PlaneShift — 295 vs 1.

Discord members

PlaneShift: 843Down 0.4%
PlanetSide 2: —

PlaneShift currently has 843 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide 2.

Reddit members

PlaneShift: 70Up 4.5%
PlanetSide 2: 91.6kUp 0.2%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 1308× as many subreddit members as PlaneShift — 91,582 vs 70.

Twitch viewers

PlaneShift: 0
PlanetSide 2: 26Down 19%

PlaneShift currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while PlanetSide 2 has 26.

YouTube subscribers

PlaneShift: 1.6k
PlanetSide 2: 98.4kDown 0.1%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 62× as many YouTube subscribers as PlaneShift — 98,400 vs 1,590.

How these estimates are made

PlaneShift

PlaneShift is estimated to have 5 – 18 players a day. Around 2k – 5k 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.