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ARK: Survival Ascended vs Schedule I
ARK: Survival Ascended is the more played game right now: 24,138 players on Steam against 20,838 for Schedule I, about 16% more players. ARK: Survival Ascended has been ahead for 76 days straight.
Schedule I counters with better Steam reviews: 98% positive vs 60%.
Players over time
Live Steam player counts, read every 10 minutes. Both are Action / Early Access games.
Which one have you played more?
Coilr members average 72.9h in ARK: Survival Ascended and 27.1h in Schedule I. 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
72.9h
average of 14 members
Schedule I
27.1h
average of 83 members
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ARK: Survival Ascended
24,836Schedule I
15,377Daily averages · latest day · ARK: Survival Ascended, 62% ahead of Schedule I
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Tracked by Coilr since May 2026 · Read 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 76 days, every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
ARK: Survival Ascended led 76 daysSchedule I led 0 days
- Days tracked
- 76
- Current streak
- 76 days
- ARK: Survival Ascended
- Lead changes
- 0
- Closest gap
- 38%
- Oct 10, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's own Steam readings), compared on the 76 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 | Schedule I |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 24,138 | 20,838 |
| 24-hour peak | 32,310 | 23,113 |
| 7-day average | 20,541 | 11,345 |
| 30-day average | 20,040 | 9,682 |
| 30-day trend | −14% | +3% |
| Peak (tracked) | 40,199 | 24,921 |
| Steam reviews | 60% positive | 98% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 59% positive | 96% positive |
| Total reviews | 119,183 | 319,249 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~2,000,000 | ~10,000,000 |
| Release date | Oct 24, 2023 | Mar 24, 2025 |
| Price | $44.99 | $19.99 |
Players by month
Monthly average and peak concurrent players on Steam, from Coilr's own tracking (readings every few minutes for the biggest games, hourly averages beyond 30 days).
| Month | ARK: Survival Ascended | Schedule I | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| May 2026 | — | — | 10,783 | 17,119 |
| Jun 2026 | — | — | 9,668 | 21,808 |
| Jul 2026 | 26,433 | 34,799 | 11,742 | 24,921 |
| Aug 2026 | 23,920 | 38,546 | 10,905 | 22,842 |
| Sep 2026 | 21,477 | 40,199 | 9,015 | 18,409 |
| Oct 2026 (so far) | 19,966 | 32,310 | 10,896 | 23,113 |
Frequently asked
Which has more players, ARK: Survival Ascended or Schedule I?
ARK: Survival Ascended currently has more players: 24,138 concurrent players on Steam vs 20,838 for Schedule I, about 16% more players.
Is ARK: Survival Ascended bigger than Schedule I on Steam?
Over the last 30 days ARK: Survival Ascended averaged 20,040 concurrent players and Schedule I averaged 9,682. By that measure ARK: Survival Ascended is currently the bigger game.
Has Schedule I 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 76 days both games have been tracked.
Is ARK: Survival Ascended better than Schedule I?
By Steam review score, Schedule I rates higher: 98% positive across 319,249 reviews vs 60% across 119,183 for ARK: Survival Ascended. ARK: Survival Ascended has the larger player base right now (24,138 vs 20,838 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 20,040 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 14% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 40,199.
Is Schedule I growing or declining on Steam?
Schedule I averaged 9,682 concurrent players over the last 30 days, up 3% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 24,921.
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