Head to head
Project Ion vs Star Citizen
Side by side
Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Daily players
Estimated players
Available on
- Windows
- Windows
- Linux
Categories
Player activity
Smoothed estimated players over time.
Project Ion
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | — | Down 100% |
| October 2026 | ~1 | |
| September 2026 | ~1 | |
| August 2026 | ~1 | |
| July 2026 | ~1 | — |
Star Citizen
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | ~167.2k | Up 1.4% |
| October 2026 | ~165k | Up 1.0% |
| 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
- Project Ion
- 0
- Star Citizen
- 3.1kDown 36%
Project Ion currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Star Citizen has 3,097.
Discord members
- Project Ion
- —
- Star Citizen
- 161.2kDown 0.6%
Star Citizen currently has 161,174 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Project Ion.
Reddit members
- Project Ion
- —
- Star Citizen
- 535kUp 0.5%
Star Citizen currently has 534,983 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Project Ion.
YouTube subscribers
- Project Ion
- —
- Star Citizen
- 577kUp 0.3%
Star Citizen currently has 577,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Project Ion.
How these estimates are made
Project Ion
Not enough data collected to estimate this game yet.
Star Citizen
Star Citizen is estimated to have 380 – 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.