Head to head

Ark: Survival Evolved vs The Cycle: Frontier

Ark: Survival Evolved

Released

~100k daily · 75k – 150k

Last measured Nov 14, 2026

The Cycle: Frontier

Shut down

No current estimate

VerdictThe Cycle: Frontier shut down on Sep 27, 2023, so there is no current player count to compare with Ark: Survival Evolved's.

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

Released

Shut down

Released

August 2017 · 9 years ago

June 2022 · 4 years ago

Est. daily players

~100k75k – 150k20% this weekMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 14, 2026

No estimate yet — collecting data since Nov 5, 2026

Available on

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Nintendo
PlayStation
Stadia
Windows
+1

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

First Person

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Ark: Survival Evolved: 21.3kDown 9.2% past week
The Cycle: Frontier: 1Down 50% past week

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 21323× as many peak concurrent Steam players as The Cycle: Frontier — 21,323 vs 1.

Discord members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 390.2k
The Cycle: Frontier: 103.9kDown 0.1% past week

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 3.8× as many Discord members as The Cycle: Frontier — 390,190 vs 103,930.

Reddit members

Ark: Survival Evolved: 328.3k
The Cycle: Frontier: 17.7k

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 19× as many subreddit members as The Cycle: Frontier — 328,280 vs 17,680.

Twitch viewers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 338Up 26% past week
The Cycle: Frontier: —

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has 338 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for The Cycle: Frontier.

YouTube subscribers

Ark: Survival Evolved: 1.2m
The Cycle: Frontier: 17.3k

Ark: Survival Evolved currently has about 69× as many YouTube subscribers as The Cycle: Frontier — 1,200,000 vs 17,300.

How these estimates are made

Ark: Survival Evolved

We estimate that about 100,000 people play Ark: Survival Evolved on a typical day (most likely between 75,000 and 150,000), based on data from Nov 14, 2026. Around 10,000,000 accounts (between 8,000,000 and 13,000,000) 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.