Head to head

Active Worlds vs Runes of Magic

Active Worlds

Live

6 – 3k daily

Runes of Magic

Live

340 – 1k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

June 1995 · 31 years ago

March 2009 · 18 years ago

Daily players

6 – 3k

340 – 1k

Estimated players

900.1%

1.7k0.6%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

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Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Active WorldsRunes of Magic

Active Worlds

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~93	Up 5.7%
August 2026	~88	Up 2.3%
July 2026	~86	—

Runes of Magic

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~1.7k	Up 3.3%
August 2026	~1.7k	Up 2.0%
July 2026	~1.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Active Worlds: 901Up 2.2%
Runes of Magic: 642Up 1.9%

Active Worlds currently has about 1.4× as many subreddit members as Runes of Magic — 901 vs 642.

Twitch viewers

Active Worlds: 0
Runes of Magic: 0Down 100%

Active Worlds currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Runes of Magic has 0.

Steam concurrent players

Active Worlds: —
Runes of Magic: 131Down 9.7%

Runes of Magic currently has 131 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Active Worlds.

Discord members

Active Worlds: —
Runes of Magic: 3.8k

Runes of Magic currently has 3,841 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Active Worlds.

YouTube subscribers

Active Worlds: —
Runes of Magic: 4.8k

Runes of Magic currently has 4,850 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Active Worlds.

How these estimates are made

Active Worlds

Active Worlds is estimated to have 6 – 3k players a day. Around 6k – 540k 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.

Runes of Magic

Runes of Magic is estimated to have 340 – 1k players a day. Around 41k – 100k 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.