Head to head

Scum vs Star Citizen

Scum

Live

29k – 100k daily

Star Citizen

Live

350 – 160k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

June 2025 · 1 year ago

August 2013 · 13 years ago

Daily players

29k – 100k

350 – 160k

Estimated players

42.1k0.8%

160.6k1.3%

Available on

Windows

Windows
Linux

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

ScumStar Citizen

Scum

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~42.3k	Down 0.9%
September 2026	~42.7k	Down 0.8%
August 2026	~43k	Up 1.4%
July 2026	~42.4k	—

Star Citizen

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~161.8k	Down 1.0%
September 2026	~163.4k	Down 0.2%
August 2026	~163.7k	Down 0.6%
July 2026	~164.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Scum: 9.6kDown 23%
Star Citizen: —

Scum currently has 9,649 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Star Citizen.

Discord members

Scum: 67.9kDown 0.2%
Star Citizen: 162.1kDown 0.2%

Star Citizen currently has about 2.4× as many Discord members as Scum — 162,128 vs 67,883.

Reddit members

Scum: 53kUp 0.3%
Star Citizen: 532.4kUp 0.7%

Star Citizen currently has about 10× as many subreddit members as Scum — 532,417 vs 53,005.

Twitch viewers

Scum: 521Down 25%
Star Citizen: 5.4kUp 23%

Star Citizen currently has about 10× as many live Twitch viewers as Scum — 5,403 vs 521.

YouTube subscribers

Scum: —
Star Citizen: 575k

Star Citizen currently has 575,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Scum.

How these estimates are made

Scum

Scum is estimated to have 29k – 100k players a day. Around 2m – 4m 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.

Star Citizen

Star Citizen is estimated to have 350 – 160k players a day. Around 78k – 8m 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.