1.0·Every feature free until Premium arrives in October
ARK: Survival Evolved vs Unturned
ARK: Survival Evolved is the more played game right now: 14,533 players on Steam against 13,469 for Unturned, a similar number of players. ARK: Survival Evolved has been ahead for 1 day straight, and has led on 126 days of the 154 days Coilr has tracked both games.
Unturned counters with better Steam reviews: 91% positive vs 83%. Unturned is free to play, while ARK: Survival Evolved costs $9.89 (−34%). Across all tracked metrics, ARK: Survival Evolved 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 127h in ARK: Survival Evolved and 26.3h in Unturned. 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
Unturned
26.3h
average of 152 members
See my hours in both
Free · read-only via Steam OpenID · no password · delete anytime
ARK: Survival Evolved
11,549Unturned
11,638Daily averages · latest day · Level
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 1 day. Unturned last led on Oct 7, 2026.
ARK: Survival Evolved led 126 daysUnturned led 28 days
- Days tracked
- 154
- Current streak
- 1 day
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Lead changes
- 24
- Closest gap
- <1%
- Aug 6, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's own Steam readings), compared on the 154 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 | Unturned |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 14,533 | 13,469 |
| 24-hour peak | 17,985 | 14,013 |
| 7-day average | 13,491 | 11,647 |
| 30-day average | 13,394 | 12,753 |
| 30-day trend | −20% | −11% |
| Peak (tracked) | 32,239 | 23,394 |
| Steam reviews | 83% positive | 91% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 85% positive | 86% positive |
| Total reviews | 778,627 | 564,780 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~20,000,000 | ~50,000,000 |
| Release date | Aug 27, 2017 | Jul 7, 2017 |
| Price | $9.89 (−34%) | Free to play |
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 | Unturned | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | 13,269 | 17,759 | 10,905 | 10,905 |
| May 2026 | 14,448 | 27,709 | 14,551 | 23,394 |
| Jun 2026 | 18,608 | 32,239 | 13,057 | 18,304 |
| Jul 2026 | 19,273 | 29,867 | 13,058 | 17,141 |
| Aug 2026 | 17,512 | 27,955 | 14,521 | 21,722 |
| Sep 2026 | 13,953 | 25,574 | 13,173 | 17,952 |
| Oct 2026 (so far) | 13,418 | 23,023 | 11,865 | 16,875 |
Frequently asked
Which has more players, ARK: Survival Evolved or Unturned?
ARK: Survival Evolved currently has more players: 14,533 concurrent players on Steam vs 13,469 for Unturned, a similar number of players.
Is ARK: Survival Evolved bigger than Unturned on Steam?
Over the last 30 days ARK: Survival Evolved averaged 13,394 concurrent players and Unturned averaged 12,753. By that measure ARK: Survival Evolved is currently the bigger game.
Has Unturned ever had more players than ARK: Survival Evolved?
Yes. Across the 154 days Coilr has tracked both games, Unturned had the higher daily average on 28 days, most recently on Oct 7, 2026. ARK: Survival Evolved has led for the last 1 day.
Is ARK: Survival Evolved better than Unturned?
By Steam review score, Unturned rates higher: 91% positive across 564,780 reviews vs 83% across 778,627 for ARK: Survival Evolved. ARK: Survival Evolved has the larger player base right now (14,533 vs 13,469 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 13,394 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 20% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 32,239.
Is Unturned growing or declining on Steam?
Unturned averaged 12,753 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 11% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 23,394.
More comparisons
ARK: Survival Evolved vs Don't Starve Together
15K vs 26K playing
ARK: Survival Ascended vs ARK: Survival Evolved
23K vs 15K playing
ARK: Survival Evolved vs No Man's Sky
15K vs 20K playing
ARK: Survival Evolved vs The Isle
15K vs 23K playing
ARK: Survival Evolved vs Satisfactory
15K vs 20K playing
ARK: Survival Evolved vs Sons Of The Forest
15K vs 18K playing
Destiny 2 vs Unturned
24K vs 14K playing
Left 4 Dead 2 vs Unturned
34K vs 14K playing