Head to head

Runescape vs Ultima Online

Runescape

Live

7k – 23k daily

Ultima Online

Live

55 – 26k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

January 2001 · 26 years ago

September 1997 · 29 years ago

Daily players

7k – 23k

55 – 26k

Estimated players

111k0.3%

2.3k0.5%

Available on

Browser
Windows
Android
macOS
Linux
iOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

RunescapeUltima Online

Runescape

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~111k	Up 1.5%
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	—

Ultima Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~2.3k	Up 1.4%
October 2026	~2.3k	Up 1.4%
September 2026	~2.2k	Up 2.4%
August 2026	~2.2k	Up 16%
July 2026	~1.9k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Runescape: 1.7kDown 33%
Ultima Online: —

Runescape currently has 1,719 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

Discord members

Runescape: 127.7kDown 0.5%
Ultima Online: —

Runescape currently has 127,728 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Ultima Online.

Reddit members

Runescape: 410.3kUp 1.0%
Ultima Online: 18.8kUp 1.7%

Runescape currently has about 22× as many subreddit members as Ultima Online — 410,284 vs 18,792.

Twitch viewers

Runescape: 528Down 66%
Ultima Online: 212Up 64%

Runescape currently has about 2.5× as many live Twitch viewers as Ultima Online — 528 vs 212.

YouTube subscribers

Runescape: 267kUp 0.8%
Ultima Online: 3.9kUp 1.6%

Runescape currently has about 69× as many YouTube subscribers as Ultima Online — 267,000 vs 3,870.

How these estimates are made

Runescape

Runescape is estimated to have 7k – 23k players a day. Around 470k – 1m 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.

Ultima Online

Ultima Online is estimated to have 55 – 26k players a day. Around 20k – 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.