Live Steam player count comparison, updated every 10 minutes. Both are Strategy games.
Slay the Spire 2 is currently the more played game: 45,950 concurrent players on Steam right now vs 20,300 for Black Desert — about 2.3× more players. Black Desert counters with better Steam reviews: 74% positive vs 60%. Across all tracked metrics, Slay the Spire 2 leads 7 of 9.
Coilr tracks charts like this for every game — and playtime history for your own library.
Tracked by Coilr since April 2026 · Steam polled every 10 minutes · methodology
Slay the Spire 2 has had the higher daily player count for the last 51 days — every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
Days tracked
51
Current streak
51 days
Slay the Spire 2
Lead changes
0
Closest gap
69%
Jul 28, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's 10-minute Steam polls), compared on the 51 days where both games have data — whichever averages higher leads that day. methodology
| Metric | Black Desert | Slay the Spire 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 20,300 | 45,950 |
| 24-hour peak | 22,206 | 96,955 |
| 7-day average | 17,948 | 65,455 |
| 30-day average | 16,898 | 68,532 |
| 30-day trend | +3% | −19% |
| Peak (tracked) | 24,252 | 165,473 |
| Steam reviews | 74% positive | 60% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 62% positive | 66% positive |
| Total reviews | 93,623 | 191,687 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~5,000,000 | — |
| Release date | May 24, 2017 | Mar 5, 2026 |
| Price | $9.99 | $24.99 |
Full stats: Black Desert · Slay the Spire 2 · add more games to this comparison →
| Month | Black Desert | Slay the Spire 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | 18,367 | 19,554 | — | — |
| May 2026 | 17,962 | 20,753 | 98,713 | 165,473 |
| Jun 2026 | 16,333 | 20,437 | 82,201 | 152,837 |
| Jul 2026 (so far) | 16,962 | 24,252 | 68,448 | 125,940 |
Monthly average and peak concurrent players on Steam, from Coilr's own tracking (10-minute polls, hourly beyond 30 days).
Slay the Spire 2 currently has more players: 45,950 concurrent players on Steam vs 20,300 for Black Desert — about 2.3× more players.
Over the last 30 days Black Desert averaged 16,898 concurrent players and Slay the Spire 2 averaged 68,532. By that measure Slay the Spire 2 is currently the bigger game.
Not in Coilr's head-to-head tracking: Slay the Spire 2 has had the higher daily average concurrent player count on Steam on every one of the 51 days both games have been tracked.
By Steam review score, Black Desert rates higher: 74% positive across 93,623 reviews vs 60% across 191,687 for Slay the Spire 2. Slay the Spire 2 has the larger player base right now (45,950 vs 20,300 concurrent). Player counts, ratings, price and trend are compared side by side above.
Black Desert averaged 16,898 concurrent players over the last 30 days, up 3% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 24,252.
Slay the Spire 2 averaged 68,532 concurrent players over the last 30 days, down 19% vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 165,473.