Head to head

AQ First Contact vs Shell Shockers

AQ First Contact

Live

1 – 560 daily

Shell Shockers

Live

16 – 7k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

September 2019 · 7 years ago

September 2017 · 9 years ago

Daily players

1 – 560

16 – 7k

Estimated players

8711%

35k0.5%

Available on

Windows
Android
iOS

Browser
Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Isometric

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

AQ First ContactShell Shockers

AQ First Contact

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~85	Down 6.6%
August 2026	~91	Down 2.2%
July 2026	~93	—

Shell Shockers

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~35k	Down 0.2%
August 2026	~35.1k
July 2026	~35.1k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Discord members

AQ First Contact: 281Down 11%
Shell Shockers: 163.5k

Shell Shockers currently has about 582× as many Discord members as AQ First Contact — 163,548 vs 281.

Reddit members

AQ First Contact: —
Shell Shockers: 576Up 0.3%

Shell Shockers currently has 576 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.

Twitch viewers

AQ First Contact: —
Shell Shockers: 0Down 100%

Shell Shockers currently has 0 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.

YouTube subscribers

AQ First Contact: —
Shell Shockers: 16.4k

Shell Shockers currently has 16,400 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for AQ First Contact.

How these estimates are made

AQ First Contact

AQ First Contact is estimated to have 1 – 560 players a day. Around 1k – 110k accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.

Shell Shockers

Shell Shockers is estimated to have 16 – 7k players a day. Around 9k – 910k accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.