Head to head

PlanetSide 2 vs The Sandbox

PlanetSide 2

Live

1k – 5k daily

The Sandbox

Live

80 – 37k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

November 2012 · 14 years ago

November 2021 · 5 years ago

Daily players

1k – 5k

80 – 37k

Estimated players

26.8k

72.1k0.6%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

PlanetSide 2The Sandbox

PlanetSide 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~26.7k
August 2026	~26.7k	Up 12%
July 2026	~23.9k	—

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.

Steam concurrent players

PlanetSide 2: 448Up 45%
The Sandbox: —

PlanetSide 2 currently has 448 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for The Sandbox.

Reddit members

PlanetSide 2: 91.5kUp 0.2%
The Sandbox: 17.4k

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 5.3× as many subreddit members as The Sandbox — 91,541 vs 17,412.

Twitch viewers

PlanetSide 2: 43Up 207%
The Sandbox: 0

PlanetSide 2 currently has 43 live Twitch viewers, while The Sandbox has 0.

YouTube subscribers

PlanetSide 2: 98.4kDown 0.1%
The Sandbox: 154kDown 0.6%

The Sandbox currently has about 1.6× as many YouTube subscribers as PlanetSide 2 — 154,000 vs 98,400.

Discord members

PlanetSide 2: —
The Sandbox: 256.2kDown 0.3%

The Sandbox currently has 256,159 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide 2.

How these estimates are made

PlanetSide 2

PlanetSide 2 is estimated to have 1k – 5k players a day. Around 1m – 3m 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 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.