Head to head

Elite: Dangerous vs Scarlet Nexus

Elite: Dangerous

Released

~50k daily · 29k – 84k

Last measured Nov 11, 2026

Scarlet Nexus

Released

~840 daily · 250 – 2.5k

Last measured Nov 11, 2026

VerdictElite: Dangerous has ~60× Scarlet Nexus's daily players (~50k vs ~840, as of Nov 11, 2026). Scarlet Nexus's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

June 2021 · 5 years ago

Est. daily players

~50k29k – 84k8.0% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 11, 2026

~840250 – 2.5k33% this weekLow confidence · Last measured Nov 11, 2026

Available on

macOS
PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Elite: DangerousScarlet Nexus

Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.

Steam concurrent players

Elite: Dangerous: 4.9kDown 6.5% past week
Scarlet Nexus: 63Up 29% past week

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 78× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Scarlet Nexus — 4,899 vs 63.

Discord members

Elite: Dangerous: 70.3k
Scarlet Nexus: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 70,256 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Scarlet Nexus.

Reddit members

Elite: Dangerous: 391.7k
Scarlet Nexus: 19.3kUp 0.2% past week

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 20× as many subreddit members as Scarlet Nexus — 391,668 vs 19,332.

Twitch viewers

Elite: Dangerous: 428Down 13% past week
Scarlet Nexus: 7Down 56% past week

Elite: Dangerous currently has about 61× as many live Twitch viewers as Scarlet Nexus — 428 vs 7.

YouTube subscribers

Elite: Dangerous: 171k
Scarlet Nexus: —

Elite: Dangerous currently has 171,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Scarlet Nexus.

How these estimates are made

Elite: Dangerous

We estimate that about 50,000 people play Elite: Dangerous on a typical day (most likely between 29,000 and 84,000), based on data from Nov 11, 2026. Around 3,500,000 accounts (between 2,300,000 and 5,300,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: medium — Steam covers part of the player base, or several community signals agree.

Scarlet Nexus

We estimate that about 840 people play Scarlet Nexus on a typical day (most likely between 250 and 2,500), based on data from Nov 11, 2026. Around 420,000 accounts (between 330,000 and 540,000) have played it at some point. Scarlet Nexus is on Steam, but Steam covers only part of its players, so the estimate also draws on the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. Confidence: low — a community-size model, not a measurement.

How we estimate