Head to head

Aion vs Runescape

Aion

Live

68 – 32k daily

Runescape

Live

8k – 27k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

November 2008 · 18 years ago

January 2001 · 26 years ago

Daily players

68 – 32k

8k – 27k

Estimated players

2.6k0.2%

111.6k0.7%

Available on

Windows

Browser
Windows
Android
macOS
Linux
iOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

AionRunescape

Aion

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~2.6k	Up 0.1%
October 2026	~2.6k	Down 0.9%
September 2026	~2.7k	Up 0.2%
August 2026	~2.7k	Up 1.6%
July 2026	~2.6k	—

Runescape

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~111.6k	Up 2.0%
October 2026	~109.4k	Up 2.0%
September 2026	~107.3k	Down 0.8%
August 2026	~108.1k	Up 1.2%
July 2026	~106.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Aion: 11.2kUp 2.3%
Runescape: 410.2kUp 1.1%

Runescape currently has about 37× as many subreddit members as Aion — 410,191 vs 11,213.

Twitch viewers

Aion: 296Down 6.9%
Runescape: 873Up 114%

Runescape currently has about 2.9× as many live Twitch viewers as Aion — 873 vs 296.

YouTube subscribers

Aion: 14.6k
Runescape: 267kUp 0.8%

Runescape currently has about 18× as many YouTube subscribers as Aion — 267,000 vs 14,600.

Steam concurrent players

Aion: —
Runescape: 3.1kUp 42%

Runescape currently has 3,101 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Aion.

Discord members

Aion: —
Runescape: 127.7kDown 0.5%

Runescape currently has 127,716 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Aion.

How these estimates are made

Aion

Aion is estimated to have 68 – 32k players a day. Around 23k – 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.