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ARK: Survival Ascended vs Raft
ARK: Survival Ascended is the more played game right now: 17,361 players on Steam against 6,526 for Raft, about 3× more players. ARK: Survival Ascended has been ahead for 67 days straight.
Raft counters with better Steam reviews: 93% positive vs 60%.
Players over time
Live Steam player counts, updated every 10 minutes. Both are Adventure / Indie games.
Which one have you played more?
Coilr members average 53.5h in ARK: Survival Ascended and 37.9h in Raft. Connect your Steam account and this row fills in with your own hours instead — then keeps tracking both, so you can see which one you are actually still playing.
ARK: Survival Ascended
53.5h
average of 12 members
Raft
37.9h
average of 79 members
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Tracked by Coilr since May 2026 · Steam polled every 10 minutes · methodology
These are Steam players only. A game that also runs on its own launcher, a storefront of its own or on console has players this number cannot see, so read it as a comparison of Steam audiences rather than of total ones.
Head-to-head record
ARK: Survival Ascended has had the higher daily player count for the last 67 days, every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
ARK: Survival Ascended led 67 daysRaft led 0 days
- Days tracked
- 67
- Current streak
- 67 days
- ARK: Survival Ascended
- Lead changes
- 0
- Closest gap
- 61%
- Sep 3, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's 10-minute Steam polls), compared on the 67 days where both games have data. Whichever averages higher leads that day.
Side by side
Every number Coilr has for both games. The better figure in each row is in green.
| Metric | ARK: Survival Ascended | Raft |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 17,361 | 6,526 |
| 24-hour peak | 20,215 | 8,112 |
| 7-day average | 18,199 | 5,373 |
| 30-day average | 21,309 | 6,366 |
| 30-day trend | −9% | −4% |
| Peak (tracked) | 40,224 | 22,226 |
| Steam reviews | 60% positive | 93% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 58% positive | 90% positive |
| Total reviews | 118,325 | 378,922 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~2,000,000 | ~10,000,000 |
| Release date | Oct 24, 2023 | Jun 20, 2022 |
| Price | $44.99 | $19.99 |
Players by month
Monthly average and peak concurrent players on Steam, from Coilr's own tracking (10-minute polls, hourly beyond 30 days).
| Month | ARK: Survival Ascended | Raft | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| May 2026 | — | — | 7,884 | 8,403 |
| Jun 2026 | — | — | 7,533 | 21,101 |
| Jul 2026 | 26,433 | 34,799 | 8,574 | 22,226 |
| Aug 2026 | 23,920 | 38,546 | 6,657 | 13,057 |
| Sep 2026 | 21,470 | 40,224 | 6,422 | 18,991 |
| Oct 2026 (so far) | 14,779 | 20,215 | 5,325 | 8,112 |
Frequently asked
Which has more players, ARK: Survival Ascended or Raft?
ARK: Survival Ascended currently has more players: 17,361 concurrent players on Steam vs 6,526 for Raft, about 3× more players.
Is ARK: Survival Ascended bigger than Raft on Steam?
Over the last 30 days ARK: Survival Ascended averaged 21,309 concurrent players and Raft averaged 6,366. By that measure ARK: Survival Ascended is currently the bigger game.
Has Raft ever had more players than ARK: Survival Ascended?
Not in Coilr's head-to-head tracking: ARK: Survival Ascended has had the higher daily average concurrent player count on Steam on every one of the 67 days both games have been tracked.
Is ARK: Survival Ascended better than Raft?
By Steam review score, Raft rates higher: 93% positive across 378,922 reviews vs 60% across 118,325 for ARK: Survival Ascended. ARK: Survival Ascended has the larger player base right now (17,361 vs 6,526 concurrent). Player counts, ratings, price and trend are compared side by side above.
Is ARK: Survival Ascended growing or declining on Steam?
ARK: Survival Ascended averaged 21,309 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 9% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 40,224.
Is Raft growing or declining on Steam?
Raft averaged 6,366 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 4% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 22,226.
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