Head to head

Pokémon Go vs Ultima Online

Pokémon Go

Live

510 – 240k daily

Ultima Online

Live

44 – 20k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

July 2016 · 10 years ago

September 1997 · 29 years ago

Daily players

510 – 240k

44 – 20k

Estimated players

822.9k0.1%

2.3k0.2%

Available on

Android
iOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Pokémon GoUltima Online

Pokémon Go

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~819.3k	Up 0.3%
September 2026	~816.5k
August 2026	~816.4k	Up 16%
July 2026	~704.8k	—

Ultima Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.3k	Up 1.4%
September 2026	~2.2k	Up 2.4%
August 2026	~2.2k	Up 16%
July 2026	~1.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Pokémon Go: 293.1kUp 0.6%
Ultima Online: —

Pokémon Go currently has 293,104 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

Reddit members

Pokémon Go: 5.7mUp 0.2%
Ultima Online: 18.8kUp 1.6%

Pokémon Go currently has about 305× as many subreddit members as Ultima Online — 5,712,011 vs 18,758.

Twitch viewers

Pokémon Go: 3.2kUp 106%
Ultima Online: 212Up 88%

Pokémon Go currently has about 15× as many live Twitch viewers as Ultima Online — 3,201 vs 212.

YouTube subscribers

Pokémon Go: 1.3m
Ultima Online: 3.9kUp 1.8%

Pokémon Go currently has about 344× as many YouTube subscribers as Ultima Online — 1,330,000 vs 3,870.

How these estimates are made

Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go is estimated to have 510 – 240k players a day. Around 100k – 10m 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.

Ultima Online

Ultima Online is estimated to have 44 – 20k players a day. Around 18k – 2m 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.