Head to head

Eve Online vs The Sandbox

Eve Online

Live

92 – 43k daily

The Sandbox

Live

51 – 24k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

May 2003 · 24 years ago

November 2021 · 5 years ago

Daily players

92 – 43k

51 – 24k

Estimated players

36.3k0.8%

1.7k

Available on

Linux
macOS
Windows

macOS
Windows

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Eve OnlineThe Sandbox

Eve Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~64.3k	Up 79%
July 2026	~36k	Down 1.3%
June 2026	~36.5k	Up 25%
May 2026	~29.3k	—

The Sandbox

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~70.1k	Up 3930%
July 2026	~1.7k
June 2026	~1.7k
May 2026	~1.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Eve Online: 52.4kUp 7.0%
The Sandbox: —

Eve Online currently has 52,384 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for The Sandbox.

Reddit members

Eve Online: 224.8kUp 2.3%
The Sandbox: 17.4kUp 0.1%

Eve Online currently has about 13× as many subreddit members as The Sandbox — 224,785 vs 17,422.

How these estimates are made

Eve Online

Eve Online is estimated to have 92 – 43k players a day. Around 35k – 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 51 – 24k players a day. Around 26k – 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.