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ARK: Survival Ascended vs Sons Of The Forest
ARK: Survival Ascended is the more played game right now: 19,602 players on Steam against 13,735 for Sons Of The Forest, about 43% more players. ARK: Survival Ascended has been ahead for 74 days straight.
Sons Of The Forest counters with better Steam reviews: 88% positive vs 60%. ARK: Survival Ascended is currently 75% off on Steam. Across all tracked metrics, Sons Of The Forest leads 6 of 10.
Players over time
Live Steam player counts, read every 10 minutes. Both are Action / Adventure games.
Which one have you played more?
Coilr members average 72.9h in ARK: Survival Ascended and 19.9h in Sons Of The Forest. 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
Sons Of The Forest
19.9h
average of 85 members
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ARK: Survival Ascended
18,092Sons Of The Forest
12,767Daily averages · latest day · ARK: Survival Ascended, 42% ahead of Sons Of The Forest
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Tracked by Coilr since April 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 74 days, every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
ARK: Survival Ascended led 74 daysSons Of The Forest led 0 days
- Days tracked
- 74
- Current streak
- 74 days
- ARK: Survival Ascended
- Lead changes
- 0
- Closest gap
- 25%
- Oct 7, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's own Steam readings), compared on the 74 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 | Sons Of The Forest |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 19,602 | 13,735 |
| 24-hour peak | 24,579 | 25,233 |
| 7-day average | 19,987 | 12,760 |
| 30-day average | 19,940 | 8,797 |
| 30-day trend | −15% | +7% |
| Peak (tracked) | 40,199 | 39,805 |
| Steam reviews | 60% positive | 88% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 59% positive | 90% positive |
| Total reviews | 118,598 | 321,396 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~2,000,000 | ~10,000,000 |
| Release date | Oct 24, 2023 | Feb 22, 2024 |
| Price | $11.24 (−75%) | $8.69 (−71%) |
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 | Sons Of The Forest | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | — | — | 5,710 | 7,600 |
| May 2026 | — | — | 4,882 | 8,619 |
| Jun 2026 | — | — | 15,012 | 39,805 |
| Jul 2026 | 26,433 | 34,799 | 13,586 | 36,316 |
| Aug 2026 | 23,920 | 38,546 | 6,511 | 12,371 |
| Sep 2026 | 21,476 | 40,199 | 9,288 | 29,724 |
| Oct 2026 (so far) | 19,434 | 32,306 | 11,967 | 26,342 |
Frequently asked
Which has more players, ARK: Survival Ascended or Sons Of The Forest?
ARK: Survival Ascended currently has more players: 19,602 concurrent players on Steam vs 13,735 for Sons Of The Forest, about 43% more players.
Is ARK: Survival Ascended bigger than Sons Of The Forest on Steam?
Over the last 30 days ARK: Survival Ascended averaged 19,940 concurrent players and Sons Of The Forest averaged 8,797. By that measure ARK: Survival Ascended is currently the bigger game.
Has Sons Of The Forest 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 74 days both games have been tracked.
Is ARK: Survival Ascended better than Sons Of The Forest?
By Steam review score, Sons Of The Forest rates higher: 88% positive across 321,396 reviews vs 60% across 118,598 for ARK: Survival Ascended. ARK: Survival Ascended has the larger player base right now (19,602 vs 13,735 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 19,940 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 15% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 40,199.
Is Sons Of The Forest growing or declining on Steam?
Sons Of The Forest averaged 8,797 concurrent players over the last 30 days, up 7% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 39,805.
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