Head to head

Shakes and Fidget vs Viking Rise

Shakes and Fidget

Live

4k – 15k daily

Viking Rise

Live

2k – 7k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

July 2009 · 17 years ago

March 2023 · 4 years ago

Daily players

4k – 15k

2k – 7k

Estimated players

15.2k1.2%

69.5k0.5%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Browser
Android
iOS

Windows
Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Shakes and FidgetViking Rise

Shakes and Fidget

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~15.3k	Down 0.3%
August 2026	~15.4k	Up 1.4%
July 2026	~15.2k	—

Viking Rise

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~69.2k	Up 0.4%
August 2026	~68.9k	Up 15%
July 2026	~59.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Shakes and Fidget: 512Down 76%
Viking Rise: 425Down 43%

Shakes and Fidget currently has about 1.2× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Viking Rise — 512 vs 425.

Twitch viewers

Shakes and Fidget: 20Down 100%
Viking Rise: 63Up 385%

Viking Rise currently has about 3.2× as many live Twitch viewers as Shakes and Fidget — 63 vs 20.

YouTube subscribers

Shakes and Fidget: 102k
Viking Rise: 113kUp 1.8%

Shakes and Fidget and Viking Rise are nearly even on YouTube subscribers — 102,000 vs 113,000.

Discord members

Shakes and Fidget: —
Viking Rise: 262.8kDown 0.2%

Viking Rise currently has 262,848 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Shakes and Fidget.

How these estimates are made

Shakes and Fidget

Shakes and Fidget is estimated to have 4k – 15k players a day. Around 600k – 2m 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.

Viking Rise

Viking Rise is estimated to have 2k – 7k players a day. Around 28k – 71k 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.