Head to head

Star Citizen vs Viking Rise

Star Citizen

Live

450 – 210k daily

Viking Rise

Live

2k – 7k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2013 · 13 years ago

March 2023 · 4 years ago

Daily players

450 – 210k

2k – 7k

Estimated players

170.7k5.7%

69.4k0.4%

Available on

Windows
Linux

Windows
Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Star CitizenViking Rise

Star Citizen

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~164.5k	Up 0.7%
September 2026	~163.4k	Down 0.2%
August 2026	~163.7k	Down 0.6%
July 2026	~164.6k	—

Viking Rise

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~69.4k	Up 0.3%
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.

Discord members

Star Citizen: 162.2kDown 0.1%
Viking Rise: 263.2k

Viking Rise currently has about 1.6× as many Discord members as Star Citizen — 263,249 vs 162,154.

Reddit members

Star Citizen: 533.5kUp 0.6%
Viking Rise: —

Star Citizen currently has 533,506 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Viking Rise.

Twitch viewers

Star Citizen: 10.2kUp 362%
Viking Rise: 276Up 557%

Star Citizen currently has about 37× as many live Twitch viewers as Viking Rise — 10,181 vs 276.

YouTube subscribers

Star Citizen: 576kUp 0.2%
Viking Rise: 113kUp 0.9%

Star Citizen currently has about 5.1× as many YouTube subscribers as Viking Rise — 576,000 vs 113,000.

Steam concurrent players

Star Citizen: —
Viking Rise: 771Up 6.9%

Viking Rise currently has 771 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Star Citizen.

How these estimates are made

Star Citizen

Star Citizen is estimated to have 450 – 210k players a day. Around 89k – 9m 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.

Viking Rise

Viking Rise is estimated to have 2k – 7k players a day. Around 28k – 72k 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.