Head to head

Perfect World vs Runescape

Perfect World

Live

7 – 3k daily

Runescape

Live

520 – 240k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

July 2005 · 21 years ago

January 2001 · 26 years ago

Daily players

7 – 3k

520 – 240k

Estimated players

1170.2%

39.8k0.1%

Available on

Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Browser
Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Perfect WorldRunescape

Perfect World

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~676	Up 478%
July 2026	~117	Up 0.9%
June 2026	~116	Up 2.7%
May 2026	~113	—

Runescape

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~107.6k	Up 171%
July 2026	~39.8k	Up 0.3%
June 2026	~39.6k	Up 0.2%
May 2026	~39.5k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Perfect World: 1.3kUp 7.5%
Runescape: 410.4kUp 3.2%

Runescape currently has about 326× as many subreddit members as Perfect World — 410,429 vs 1,258.

How these estimates are made

Perfect World

Perfect World is estimated to have 7 – 3k players a day. Around 6k – 620k 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.

Runescape

Runescape is estimated to have 520 – 240k players a day. Around 140k – 13m 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.