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Operation: New Earth vs The Sandbox

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Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE
ACTIVE

Released

December 2016 · 10 years ago
November 2021 · 5 years ago

Daily players

690 – 2k
77 – 36k

Estimated players

475Down 1.0%
70.3kDown 2.0%

Available on

  • Windows
  • Windows
  • macOS

Developers

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Operation: New EarthThe Sandbox

Operation: New Earth

Average monthly estimated players
MonthEstimated playersChange
November 2026~465Down 3.1%
October 2026~480Up 1.5%
September 2026~473Down 0.2%
August 2026~474Up 8.5%
July 2026~437—

The Sandbox

Average monthly estimated players
MonthEstimated playersChange
November 2026~70.4kDown 1.3%
October 2026~71.4kDown 0.1%
September 2026~71.4k
August 2026~71.5kDown 0.1%
July 2026~71.6k—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Operation: New Earth
207Down 31%
The Sandbox
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Operation: New Earth currently has 207 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for The Sandbox.

Twitch viewers

Operation: New Earth
0
The Sandbox
0

Operation: New Earth currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while The Sandbox has 0.

YouTube subscribers

Operation: New Earth
2.5kUp 0.4%
The Sandbox
154k

The Sandbox currently has about 61× as many YouTube subscribers as Operation: New Earth — 154,000 vs 2,520.

Discord members

Operation: New Earth
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The Sandbox
249.6kDown 2.2%

The Sandbox currently has 249,632 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Operation: New Earth.

Reddit members

Operation: New Earth
—
The Sandbox
17.4k

The Sandbox currently has 17,421 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Operation: New Earth.

How these estimates are made

Operation: New Earth

Operation: New Earth is estimated to have 690 – 2k players a day. Around 24k – 63k 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 77 – 36k players a day. Around 29k – 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.

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