Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
Polygons eating polygons eating polygons. An evolution sandbox where the genetics really are simulated.
53% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$0.76
Games like Sandboxels
Hooked on the relaxing and replayable side of Sandboxels? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
The 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.
Relaxing, Replayable, Chaotic
98% of 3,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155FreeSand: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.
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
93% of 1,730 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.99The Sandbox
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
54% of 526 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Atomcraft
Every pixel in Atomcraft is simulated, so the world is less a map and more one enormous chemistry set. Dig through a procedurally generated planet, smelt ore, wire up machines from conveyor belts to logic gates, and chase all 118 elements to repair your crashed ship. Bring a curious mind: the chemistry is real enough to send you down rabbit holes.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
95% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99ACTION SANDBOX
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
73% of 788 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Squares and Stuff
Build, experiment, and share in Squares and Stuff, a pixel-retro sandbox game inspired by classic "falling sand" games. Unleash your creativity in an open-ended world filled with sandbox elements like water, paint, fire, sand, animals, humans, zombies, and a controllable 2D platform character.
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
67% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Alembic
A falling-sand sandbox built on the real periodic table. Every element has genuine physical properties, and reactions emerge from real chemistry — rust iron, ignite thermite, run a galvanic cell, split a uranium pile to criticality. Discover it all in an encyclopedia that fills as you play.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing, Replayable, Chaotic
90% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Pixel Rain
A chill falling-sand pixel physics sandbox. Paint with hundreds of interactive materials — water, lava, acid, crystals, plants and more — discover recipes, build your own elements in the Workshop, and watch it all react in real time. No goals. No pressure. Just pixels.
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
55% of 20 Steam reviews are positiveFreeCellchemist
Solve carefully crafted puzzles and experiment with over 100 cells in this physics sandbox where every pixel is simulated.
Relaxing, Colorful, Chaotic
89% of 47 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSandustry
Sandustry is a factory game where every pixel is stuff you can mine, spill, melt, burn, or blow up. You start sifting gold from wet sand and end up plumbing steam, lava, seeds, and ice across a fully destructible planet, hunting artifacts left by an ancient civilization.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing, Replayable
97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99Pixel Sand
Mix elements like a mad scientist on a particularly spicy date with destiny! Embark on a journey through the mystical caves of Dormacom with our hero Vurhne as he seeks out the ultimate power for no good reason at all!
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
85% of 75 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSpace 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.
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
80% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$17.77
Cheaper than Sandboxels
Magic Box
Magic Box - interesting puzzle game with a lot of interesting and challenging levels.
71% of 97 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$0.49
Fluffy Kitchen Saga
Manage a tiny restaurant run by fluffy animals, serving global dishes and upgrading the cozy decor.
63% of 247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$0.83
My House
Build your house according to your desires in My House! Let your creativity express itself in a chill atmosphere!
59% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Chocolate makes you happy 6
Chocolate makes you happy 6 is a colorful 2D physics puzzle game with cookies, chocolate, reverse gravity, treadmills, jumpers, teleports, and…
89% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$0.55
Gabe Newell Simulator
In Gabe Newell Simulator you can manage Steam releasing and creating new games and also in the story mode you can play as Gaben and help him in his…
52% of 539 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Finger Party
FINGER PARTY is a short incremental game about plopping colorful blobs. Gain immense power and expose the dark secrets of a finger party.
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
Mining Mechs
Pilot a mining mech through colorful underground layers, selling minerals and upgrading your drill at your own pace, alone or with friends.
89% of 2,622 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 56$0.74
Shoot. Push. Repeat.
A dynamic clicker puzzle simulating real physics.
84% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$0.72
Hidden gems like Sandboxels
Atomcraft
Mine, smelt and automate your way across a simulated world, chasing every element to fix your ship.
95% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
waxweaver
A short sandbox rpg game that takes place on a square planet. Explore the world, gather resources, build a home and become stronger.
96% of 626 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Sandustry
Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.
97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99
The Powder Toy
Mix elements, build contraptions and watch your experiments blow up in pixel-perfect fashion.
98% of 3,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155Free
Sand:box
Mix pixel particles into contraptions, from simple circuits to floods of sand, all at your own unhurried pace.
93% of 1,730 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.99
STANDBOX
Poke a wobbling ragdoll with tools, slow time, and watch the chaos unfold across three colorful maps.
90% of 2,966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$7.99
Regular Human Workshop
A 2D physics sandbox with no goals and no rules except gravity.
89% of 1,211 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$9.99
Heliopedia
A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets.
87% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Project Chemistry
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode.
84% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Mutilate-a-Doll 2
Build absurd contraptions, pick your weapons and let the physics do the rest, one disposable doll at a time.
93% of 1,596 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9
ACTION SANDBOX
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
73% of 788 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Newest games like Sandboxels
Alembic
A falling-sand sandbox built on the real periodic table. Every element has genuine physical properties, and reactions emerge from real chemistry…
90% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Sandustry
Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.
97% of 5,720 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 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
Plentiful
Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works.
90% of 88 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99
Lay of the Land
Mine, build and fight on an island where fire, water and physics reshape everything, alone or with friends.
80% of 1,251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$13.99
Cellchemist
Solve carefully crafted puzzles and experiment with over 100 cells in this physics sandbox where every pixel is simulated.
89% of 47 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Water Box: Sandbox Playground
This water physics sandbox lets you experiment with realistic fluid behavior, sink ships by using bomb explosions, and enjoy a ragdoll people…
75% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Brickadia
Stack bricks into whatever you imagine, then hand your friends a weapon and see what survives.
81% of 1,289 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$19.99
waxweaver
A short sandbox rpg game that takes place on a square planet. Explore the world, gather resources, build a home and become stronger.
96% of 626 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Tiny Glade
Sketch little medieval buildings in a meadow and watch every brick, vine and wandering sheep fall into place.
97% of 23,106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 219$14.99
Sandbox World
Welcome to the Sandbox World! Here, you bring your ideas to life: create tanks, airplanes, ships, and anything else – with over 120 unique blocks at…
74% of 139 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.99
Sand in a Box
Sand in a Box is a 'falling sand' game that simulates thermal flow, electricity, radioactive decay, and gravity.
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$3.99