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ARK: Survival Evolved vs Raft
ARK: Survival Evolved is the more played game right now: 8,730 players on Steam against 3,960 for Raft, about 2.2× more players. ARK: Survival Evolved has been ahead for 131 days straight.
Raft counters with better Steam reviews: 93% positive vs 83%. ARK: Survival Evolved is currently 34% off on Steam. Across all tracked metrics, ARK: Survival Evolved leads 7 of 10.
Players over time
Live Steam player counts, read every 10 minutes. Both are Adventure / Indie games.
Which one have you played more?
Coilr members average 127h in ARK: Survival Evolved and 36.0h 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 Evolved
127h
average of 102 members
Raft
36.0h
average of 84 members
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ARK: Survival Evolved
11,468Raft
7,418Daily averages · latest day · ARK: Survival Evolved, 55% ahead of Raft
One point per day, averaged · Your time zone · drag or use arrow keys to read the lines
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 Evolved has had the higher daily player count for the last 131 days, every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
ARK: Survival Evolved led 131 daysRaft led 0 days
- Days tracked
- 131
- Current streak
- 131 days
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Lead changes
- 0
- Closest gap
- 32%
- Oct 5, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's own Steam readings), compared on the 131 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 Evolved | Raft |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 8,730 | 3,960 |
| 24-hour peak | 17,985 | 17,144 |
| 7-day average | 13,477 | 8,740 |
| 30-day average | 13,374 | 6,376 |
| 30-day trend | −20% | −10% |
| Peak (tracked) | 32,239 | 22,226 |
| Steam reviews | 83% positive | 93% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 85% positive | 89% positive |
| Total reviews | 778,627 | 379,195 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~20,000,000 | ~10,000,000 |
| Release date | Aug 27, 2017 | Jun 20, 2022 |
| Price | $9.89 (−34%) | $13.39 (−33%) |
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 Evolved | Raft | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | 13,269 | 17,759 | — | — |
| May 2026 | 14,448 | 27,709 | 7,884 | 8,403 |
| Jun 2026 | 18,608 | 32,239 | 7,533 | 21,101 |
| Jul 2026 | 19,273 | 29,867 | 8,574 | 22,226 |
| Aug 2026 | 17,512 | 27,955 | 6,657 | 13,057 |
| Sep 2026 | 13,953 | 25,574 | 6,423 | 18,467 |
| Oct 2026 (so far) | 13,323 | 23,023 | 8,294 | 20,091 |
Frequently asked
Which has more players, ARK: Survival Evolved or Raft?
ARK: Survival Evolved currently has more players: 8,730 concurrent players on Steam vs 3,960 for Raft, about 2.2× more players.
Is ARK: Survival Evolved bigger than Raft on Steam?
Over the last 30 days ARK: Survival Evolved averaged 13,374 concurrent players and Raft averaged 6,376. By that measure ARK: Survival Evolved is currently the bigger game.
Has Raft ever had more players than ARK: Survival Evolved?
Not in Coilr's head-to-head tracking: ARK: Survival Evolved has had the higher daily average concurrent player count on Steam on every one of the 131 days both games have been tracked.
Is ARK: Survival Evolved better than Raft?
By Steam review score, Raft rates higher: 93% positive across 379,195 reviews vs 83% across 778,627 for ARK: Survival Evolved. ARK: Survival Evolved has the larger player base right now (8,730 vs 3,960 concurrent). Player counts, ratings, price and trend are compared side by side above.
Is ARK: Survival Evolved growing or declining on Steam?
ARK: Survival Evolved averaged 13,374 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 20% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 32,239.
Is Raft growing or declining on Steam?
Raft averaged 6,376 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 10% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 22,226.
