Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs The Sandbox

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 44k daily

The Sandbox

Live

55 – 26k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

November 2021 · 5 years ago

Daily players

13k – 44k

55 – 26k

Estimated players

87.6k2.0%

71.3k

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2The Sandbox

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~84.7k	Down 1.7%
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.9%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

The Sandbox

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~71k	Down 0.7%
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.

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 3.4kDown 43%
The Sandbox: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 3,350 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for The Sandbox.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.6kDown 0.4%
The Sandbox: 255.4kDown 0.3%

The Sandbox currently has about 5.4× as many Discord members as Guild Wars 2 — 255,373 vs 47,618.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 428.6kUp 0.4%
The Sandbox: 17.4k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 25× as many subreddit members as The Sandbox — 428,582 vs 17,417.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 3kUp 72%
The Sandbox: 0

Guild Wars 2 currently has 3,025 live Twitch viewers, while The Sandbox has 0.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 219kUp 1.4%
The Sandbox: 154k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 1.4× as many YouTube subscribers as The Sandbox — 219,000 vs 154,000.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 13k – 44k players a day. Around 500k – 1m accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.

The Sandbox

The Sandbox is estimated to have 55 – 26k players a day. Around 25k – 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.