Head to head

Blade & Soul vs The Sandbox

Blade & Soul

Live

46 – 22k daily

The Sandbox

Live

75 – 35k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

June 2012 · 14 years ago

November 2021 · 5 years ago

Daily players

46 – 22k

75 – 35k

Estimated players

11.5k

71k

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Blade & SoulThe Sandbox

Blade & Soul

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~11.5k
September 2026	~11.5k
August 2026	~11.5k
July 2026	~11.5k	—

The Sandbox

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~71.1k	Down 0.4%
September 2026	~71.4k
August 2026	~71.5k	Down 0.1%
July 2026	~71.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Blade & Soul: 49.2k
The Sandbox: 17.4k

Blade & Soul currently has about 2.8× as many subreddit members as The Sandbox — 49,160 vs 17,418.

Twitch viewers

Blade & Soul: 1Down 91%
The Sandbox: 0

Blade & Soul currently has 1 live Twitch viewers, while The Sandbox has 0.

YouTube subscribers

Blade & Soul: 65.5kDown 0.2%
The Sandbox: 154k

The Sandbox currently has about 2.4× as many YouTube subscribers as Blade & Soul — 154,000 vs 65,500.

Discord members

Blade & Soul: —
The Sandbox: 255.3kDown 0.3%

The Sandbox currently has 255,314 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

How these estimates are made

Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul is estimated to have 46 – 22k players a day. Around 27k – 3m 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.

The Sandbox

The Sandbox is estimated to have 75 – 35k players a day. Around 28k – 3m 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.