Head to head

War Thunder vs World of Warcraft

War Thunder

Live

240k – 860k daily

World of Warcraft

Live

690 – 320k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

January 2013 · 14 years ago

November 2004 · 22 years ago

Daily players

240k – 860k

690 – 320k

Estimated players

386.9k1.0%

580.9k1.0%

Available on

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

War ThunderWorld of Warcraft

War Thunder

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~370.5k	Up 0.5%
September 2026	~368.7k	Up 1.8%
August 2026	~362.3k	Up 0.6%
July 2026	~360.3k	—

World of Warcraft

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~595.3k	Up 0.8%
September 2026	~590.7k	Up 3.9%
August 2026	~568.6k	Up 14%
July 2026	~500.1k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

War Thunder: 95.5kUp 20%
World of Warcraft: —

War Thunder currently has 95,533 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for World of Warcraft.

Reddit members

War Thunder: 568.7kUp 0.5%
World of Warcraft: 3.2mUp 0.3%

World of Warcraft currently has about 5.6× as many subreddit members as War Thunder — 3,208,606 vs 568,726.

Twitch viewers

War Thunder: 30kUp 1622%
World of Warcraft: 42.8kDown 67%

World of Warcraft currently has about 1.4× as many live Twitch viewers as War Thunder — 42,783 vs 29,965.

YouTube subscribers

War Thunder: 1.9mUp 0.5%
World of Warcraft: 2mUp 1.5%

War Thunder and World of Warcraft are nearly even on YouTube subscribers — 1,950,000 vs 2,010,000.

Discord members

War Thunder: —
World of Warcraft: 187.6kUp 6.0%

World of Warcraft currently has 187,577 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for War Thunder.

How these estimates are made

War Thunder

War Thunder is estimated to have 240k – 860k players a day. Around 8m – 21m 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.

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is estimated to have 690 – 320k players a day. Around 120k – 12m 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.