Head to head

MapleStory vs The Sandbox

MapleStory

Live

26k – 90k daily

The Sandbox

Live

74 – 35k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2003 · 23 years ago

November 2021 · 5 years ago

Daily players

26k – 90k

74 – 35k

Estimated players

81.4k0.2%

71.3k1.0%

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Side View

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

MapleStoryThe Sandbox

MapleStory

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~82.5k	Up 1.0%
July 2026	~81.7k	—

The Sandbox

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~71.6k
July 2026	~71.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

MapleStory: 11kDown 3.7%
The Sandbox: —

MapleStory currently has 10,991 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for The Sandbox.

Discord members

MapleStory: 128.1kUp 0.3%
The Sandbox: 256.7k

The Sandbox currently has about 2× as many Discord members as MapleStory — 256,666 vs 128,079.

Reddit members

MapleStory: 149.2kUp 0.1%
The Sandbox: 17.4k

MapleStory currently has about 8.6× as many subreddit members as The Sandbox — 149,245 vs 17,408.

Twitch viewers

MapleStory: 5.1kDown 70%
The Sandbox: 0

MapleStory currently has 5,066 live Twitch viewers, while The Sandbox has 0.

YouTube subscribers

MapleStory: 182k
The Sandbox: 155k

MapleStory currently has about 1.2× as many YouTube subscribers as The Sandbox — 182,000 vs 155,000.

How these estimates are made

MapleStory

MapleStory is estimated to have 26k – 90k players a day. Around 290k – 740k 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 74 – 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.