Head to head

RuneScape Classic vs Viking Rise

RuneScape Classic

Live

6 – 3k daily

Viking Rise

Live

2k – 7k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

January 2001 · 26 years ago

March 2023 · 4 years ago

Daily players

6 – 3k

2k – 7k

Estimated players

—50%

69.4k0.5%

Available on

Windows

Windows
Android
iOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

RuneScape ClassicViking Rise

RuneScape Classic

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

Viking Rise

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~69.2k	Up 0.4%
August 2026	~68.9k	Up 15%
July 2026	~59.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Twitch viewers

RuneScape Classic: 2
Viking Rise: 24Down 63%

Viking Rise currently has about 12× as many live Twitch viewers as RuneScape Classic — 24 vs 2.

Steam concurrent players

RuneScape Classic: —
Viking Rise: 568Down 28%

Viking Rise currently has 568 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Discord members

RuneScape Classic: —
Viking Rise: 263.3k

Viking Rise currently has 263,293 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

YouTube subscribers

RuneScape Classic: —
Viking Rise: 112kUp 0.9%

Viking Rise currently has 112,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

How these estimates are made

RuneScape Classic

RuneScape Classic is estimated to have 6 – 3k players a day. Around 8k – 740k 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.

Viking Rise

Viking Rise is estimated to have 2k – 7k players a day. Around 28k – 71k 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.