Head to head

Foundation: Galactic Frontier vs The Sandbox

Foundation: Galactic Frontier

Live

44 – 20k daily

The Sandbox

Live

80 – 37k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2025 · 1 year ago

November 2021 · 5 years ago

Daily players

44 – 20k

80 – 37k

Estimated players

32.1k2.8%

72.1k0.6%

Available on

Windows
Android
iOS

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Foundation: Galactic FrontierThe Sandbox

Foundation: Galactic Frontier

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~31.7k	Up 4.6%
August 2026	~30.3k	Up 15%
July 2026	~26.3k	—

The Sandbox

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~71.8k	Up 0.4%
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.

Discord members

Foundation: Galactic Frontier: 102.4kUp 5.3%
The Sandbox: 256.2kDown 0.3%

The Sandbox currently has about 2.5× as many Discord members as Foundation: Galactic Frontier — 256,159 vs 102,405.

Twitch viewers

Foundation: Galactic Frontier: 3Down 77%
The Sandbox: 0

Foundation: Galactic Frontier currently has 3 live Twitch viewers, while The Sandbox has 0.

YouTube subscribers

Foundation: Galactic Frontier: 83.5kUp 7.5%
The Sandbox: 154kDown 0.6%

The Sandbox currently has about 1.8× as many YouTube subscribers as Foundation: Galactic Frontier — 154,000 vs 83,500.

Reddit members

Foundation: Galactic Frontier: —
The Sandbox: 17.4k

The Sandbox currently has 17,412 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Foundation: Galactic Frontier.

How these estimates are made

Foundation: Galactic Frontier

Foundation: Galactic Frontier is estimated to have 44 – 20k players a day. Around 18k – 2m 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 80 – 37k players a day. Around 30k – 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.