Head to head

The Cycle: Frontier vs Viking Rise

The Cycle: Frontier

Live

13 – 44 daily

Viking Rise

Live

2k – 8k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

June 2022 · 4 years ago

March 2023 · 4 years ago

Daily players

13 – 44

2k – 8k

Estimated players

38.2k5.9%

70.1k1.1%

Available on

Windows

Windows
Android
iOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

First Person

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

The Cycle: FrontierViking Rise

The Cycle: Frontier

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~36.7k	Down 0.2%
September 2026	~36.7k	Down 0.7%
August 2026	~37k
July 2026	~37k	—

Viking Rise

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~69.5k	Up 0.4%
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

The Cycle: Frontier: 1Down 50%
Viking Rise: 856Up 11%

Viking Rise currently has about 856× as many peak concurrent Steam players as The Cycle: Frontier — 856 vs 1.

Discord members

The Cycle: Frontier: 105.9kDown 0.4%
Viking Rise: 263k

Viking Rise currently has about 2.5× as many Discord members as The Cycle: Frontier — 263,036 vs 105,853.

Reddit members

The Cycle: Frontier: 17.7k
Viking Rise: —

The Cycle: Frontier currently has 17,679 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Viking Rise.

Twitch viewers

The Cycle: Frontier: 271Up 247%
Viking Rise: 9Down 86%

The Cycle: Frontier currently has about 30× as many live Twitch viewers as Viking Rise — 271 vs 9.

YouTube subscribers

The Cycle: Frontier: 17.3k
Viking Rise: 114kUp 0.9%

Viking Rise currently has about 6.6× as many YouTube subscribers as The Cycle: Frontier — 114,000 vs 17,300.

How these estimates are made

The Cycle: Frontier

The Cycle: Frontier is estimated to have 13 – 44 players a day. Around 720k – 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 – 8k 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.