LiveSeptember 1997 · 29 years ago

Ultima Online

2.2kestimated players0.3% this week

44 – 21k daily players

Ultima Online is the product of Richard Garriott's idea for a fantasy game involving several thousand people who can all play in a shared fantasy world. It is responsible for grandfathering the genre of the MMO, and showing the industry that MMO's were the next era of gaming.

Ultima Online is estimated to have 44 – 21k players a day. Around 18k – 2m 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.

Player stats

Estimated daily players

44 – 21 thousand

How many people we think play Ultima Online on a given day.

Estimated total players

18 thousand – 1.8 million

How many accounts we think have played Ultima Online at some point.

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~2.2k	Up 16%
July 2026	~1.9k	—

Community activity

Daily Ultima Online community data tracked across Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube.

Reddit members

17.9kUp 0.1% past week

The Ultima Online subreddit counts 17,941 members. Subreddit membership has held steady over the past week.

Twitch viewers

5 live streams

25Down 54% past week

Ultima Online recently drew 25 live viewers on Twitch across 5 streams; viewership peaked at 207 on Jul 27, 2026. Twitch viewership is down 54% over the past week.

YouTube subscribers

3.7kUp 0.3% past week

The official Ultima Online YouTube channel has 3,690 subscribers. The subscriber count has held steady over the past week.

Trailer

Storyline

During the earliest span of the age of darkness; found in the writings of only the most aged of manuscripts, lived a world born of mystic arts and ancient sorcery: Sosaria. Despite Sosaria's enchanted origins, it's people shunned magic, for it's very use corrupted the souls of the unwary. But one man dared to awake the slumbering powers of Alchemy. Twisting the awesome power of the Gem of Immortality to his will, and binding all of Sosaria to his corruption: Mondain the Wizard. His power was absolute, as the whole of the planet was gripped in his cruel embrace. Only the appearance of a stranger saved Sosaria from impending destruction. From whence he came, no one knows; but his strength and his courage were without peer. In this stranger, lied Sosaria's only hope; Only a traveler from the stars could release this world from Mondain's vile stranglehold. He would prove himself a savior; shattering the Gem of Immortality, and defeating Mondain. But... A deeper and more sinister evil was released with the destruction of the Gem; For Sosaria was not free of the stone's power. The planet was still bound to the Jewel's magic, even as it laid shattered on the floor of Mondain's Castle. For within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria... Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Britannia, that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds; each with it's own peoples, history and destiny. This Britannia is but one of many, in the multiverse that is: Ultima Online.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Ultima Online?

Ultima Online has an estimated 44–21,000 daily players and roughly 18,000–1,800,000 accounts that have played it in total, as of August 2026. The range is modelled from the size of the game’s Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities rather than measured, so treat it as a rough band.