Sand:box
Mix pixel particles into contraptions, from simple circuits to floods of sand, all at your own unhurried pace.
93% of 1,719 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.99
Games like PixPhys
Remember how chaotic and replayable PixPhys felt at its best? These games are worth a look next.
ACTION SANDBOX
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Chaotic, Replayable, Retro
73% of 788 Steam reviews are positive$9.99The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!
Chaotic, Replayable, Relaxing
91% of 692 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$8.99The Powder Toy
Build a nuclear reactor, wire a working computer, or just drop a bomb on your own city and watch the fallout drift. Runs on nearly anything, and one more experiment is always five minutes away.
Chaotic, Replayable, Retro
98% of 3,122 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155FreeArchean
Archean is a first-person engineering sandbox where physics does the judging. You gather ore, craft parts, bolt together planes and rockets, wire their power and fluids, then program them in XenonCode. Planets are full-sized, orbits are real, and if it flies, it is because you built something that flies.
Chaotic, Replayable, Relaxing
87% of 246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99GearBlocks
A sandbox for mechanically minded builders: snap together motors, gears, springs and joints to make cars, cranes, walking machines or a fully working engine, then drive them and smash them to bits. Physics keeps everything honest, and the workshop is full of machines other builders made.
Chaotic, Replayable, Relaxing
90% of 770 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$14.99Plasma
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox: build robots, factories, arcade machines or a giant rampaging spider from hundreds of parts, then wire up its brain with visual programming. No goals, no timers, just you, a blank world and whatever device you can imagine. If making things work is its own reward, this is your playground.
Chaotic, Replayable, Relaxing
90% of 1,176 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11FreeSand:box
A relaxing falling-sand sandbox with pixel particles, digital circuits and playable stickmen. Build contraptions, automate things, or just flood a tunnel with sand and watch it pour. It runs at your pace, and there is always one more element to try.
Chaotic, Replayable, Retro
93% of 1,719 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.99Regular Human Workshop
A 2D physics sandbox with no goals and no rules except gravity. Spawn ragdolls that walk, feel pain and bleed like the real thing, wire buttons to guns, and slow time to watch a bullet do its work. Grim, funny and endlessly fiddly: you decide what this workshop is for.
Chaotic, Replayable, Relaxing
89% of 1,210 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$9.99Space Simulation Toolkit
A physics sandbox that borrows your graphics card as a supercomputer. Build worlds atom by atom, rewrite the laws that govern them, and watch gases, liquids, soft bodies and maybe even living things emerge. It is early, rough and demanding, but nothing else plays god at this scale.
Chaotic, Replayable, Retro
80% of 517 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$24.99World of Contraptions
World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.
Chaotic, Replayable, Relaxing
85% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$9.99People Playground
People Playground is a 2D physics sandbox about doing terrible, fascinating things to ragdolls in a large open space. Shoot, burn, poison, crush, revive them, or ignore them and build airplanes, walkers, and unholy weaponry instead. Detailed gore, deep simulation, and total freedom.
Chaotic, Replayable
97% of 302,368 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,820$9.99Purplis Sandbox
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Chaotic, Replayable, Retro
64% of 185 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Cheaper than PixPhys
Sandboxels
A pixel sandbox where every powder, liquid and gas reacts, and the only goal is the one you set yourself.
94% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$0.99
Mechanica
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming.
62% of 607 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
simple shapes
simple shapes: a limitless indie 2D physics sandbox.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters!
87% of 522 Steam reviews are positive$1.49
Sinking Simulator
Break massive 2D ships apart with holes, explosives and physics, then watch them go down.
81% of 698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$0.99
Ultimate Ragdoll Game
Ultimate Ragdoll Game is a Sandbox game without any limits. Have fun with ragdolls available in Steam Workshop and build your very own constructions…
76% of 714 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Unreal Sandbox
Build and play with others with a physics based sandbox created in unreal engine 5
40% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Technicity
A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger.
74% of 201 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$1.79
Physics Playground
Physics Playground is a little indie game in which you can experiment with different cubes, tools, buttons and of course physics.
64% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like PixPhys
Atomcraft
Mine, smelt and automate your way across a simulated world, chasing every element to fix your ship.
95% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
Sandboxels
A pixel sandbox where every powder, liquid and gas reacts, and the only goal is the one you set yourself.
94% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$0.99
Primitier
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world…
93% of 311 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Code: Terraform
Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.
84% of 381 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$14.99
Mars First Logistics
Assemble wobbly machines from over 100 parts and deliver awkward cargo across a bright, low-pressure Mars, alone or with friends.
94% of 3,556 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$19.99
RoboCo
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
87% of 189 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Project P.I.T.T.
A first-person physics job where you automate rubber duck production for a pit that never stops eating.
79% of 1,186 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$9.99
The Powder Toy
Mix elements, build contraptions and watch your experiments blow up in pixel-perfect fashion.
98% of 3,122 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155Free
Instruments of Destruction
Drive absurdly overbuilt machines through a physics playground where buildings crumble into flying debris, then do it all again for a better score.
91% of 1,433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$19.99
Sand:box
Mix pixel particles into contraptions, from simple circuits to floods of sand, all at your own unhurried pace.
93% of 1,719 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.99
Brickadia
Stack bricks into whatever you imagine, then hand your friends a weapon and see what survives.
81% of 1,285 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$19.99
The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game!
91% of 692 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$8.99
Newest games like PixPhys
Nuclear Design Bureau
Draw your design on the grid, run a real detonation simulation, and figure out why it fizzled or why it did not.
78% of 441 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$9.99
Code: Terraform
Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.
84% of 381 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$14.99
Project P.I.T.T.
A first-person physics job where you automate rubber duck production for a pit that never stops eating.
79% of 1,186 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$9.99
Sandustry
Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.
97% of 5,682 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99
Atomcraft
Mine, smelt and automate your way across a simulated world, chasing every element to fix your ship.
95% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
RoboCo
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
87% of 189 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Simulo
A multiplayer 2D physics sandbox game where you can build and share creations. Features include electricity, temperature, and destructible ragdolls.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Mars First Logistics
Assemble wobbly machines from over 100 parts and deliver awkward cargo across a bright, low-pressure Mars, alone or with friends.
94% of 3,556 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$19.99
Brickadia
Stack bricks into whatever you imagine, then hand your friends a weapon and see what survives.
81% of 1,285 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$19.99
Primitier
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world…
93% of 311 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Sandboxels
A pixel sandbox where every powder, liquid and gas reacts, and the only goal is the one you set yourself.
94% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$0.99
KitHack Model Club
Developed by the creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, KitHack Model Club is a physics-based model building sandbox that offers limitless…
74% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99