Head to head

PlanetSide vs Star Citizen

PlanetSide

Live

Star Citizen

Live

390 – 180k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

May 2003 · 23 years ago

August 2013 · 13 years ago

Daily players

No population data

390 – 180k

Estimated players

—

166.8k2.8%

Available on

Windows

Windows
Linux

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

PlanetSideStar Citizen

PlanetSide

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~1	—
September 2026	—	—
August 2026	—	—
July 2026	—	—

Star Citizen

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~164.2k	Up 0.5%
September 2026	~163.4k	Down 0.2%
August 2026	~163.7k	Down 0.6%
July 2026	~164.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Twitch viewers

PlanetSide: 0
Star Citizen: 4.2kDown 15%

PlanetSide currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Star Citizen has 4,168.

Discord members

PlanetSide: —
Star Citizen: 162.3k

Star Citizen currently has 162,304 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide.

Reddit members

PlanetSide: —
Star Citizen: 534.2kUp 0.6%

Star Citizen currently has 534,198 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide.

YouTube subscribers

PlanetSide: —
Star Citizen: 576kUp 0.2%

Star Citizen currently has 576,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide.

How these estimates are made

PlanetSide

Not enough data collected to estimate this game yet.

Star Citizen

Star Citizen is estimated to have 390 – 180k players a day. Around 83k – 8m 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.