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2021PC94 % positive0.99 €

Sandboxels is a browser-based falling sand simulator where you mix over 500 elements and watch heat, electricity, density and chemical reactions interact. There are no goals, just relaxed, free-form experimenting and destruction.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Pixel art
  • Cosy, great for unwinding

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In short: Games like Sandboxels

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Sandboxels special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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2019PC, Steam Deck playable97 % positive8.19 €

Brings what grabs you about Sandboxels: a sandbox with your own goals, pixel art and a relaxed difficulty.

A physics-driven sandbox where you freely experiment with weapons, machines and odd gadgets on ragdoll characters. The fun comes from creative tinkering and the unexpected, chaotic results.

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WorldBox

Pixel art

A pixel-art god sandbox where you shape worlds, watch civilizations rise, and intervene with miracles or disasters. The appeal is the emergent chaos as kingdoms form, wage wars, and collapse.

Tilt Brush

Sandbox with your own goals

Tilt Brush is a VR app where you paint freely in three-dimensional space with glowing brushes, stars, light and fire. It's less a game than a relaxing creative tool with no goals or pressure.

Vacation Simulator

Sandbox with your own goals

A silly, lighthearted VR game where you goof around on a vacation island with robot hosts, building sandcastles, playing sports and picking up and playing with everything. Relaxed, playful and very accessible.

Playne

Sandbox with your own goals

Playne is a calm sandbox that encourages a daily meditation habit. Each session makes the game world grow and transform, turning your practice into visible, relaxing progress.

Universe Sandbox Legacy

Sandbox with your own goals

A space sandbox simulator where you build and wreck planets, stars and galaxies, tweaking gravity and orbits and smashing bodies together. There are no goals, just open-ended experimentation with a strong educational feel.

Pixel Washer

Pixel art

A relaxing, zen-like game where you play a cute piggy power washing pixelated worlds clean. Upgrade your washer and uncover hidden secrets along the way.

Rolling Line

Sandbox with your own goals

A relaxing model railway sandbox where you build your own tracks and scenery or explore community layouts from the Steam Workshop, with VR support.

Everything

Sandbox with your own goals

This meditative sandbox lets you become any object in the universe, from animals to planets to galaxies, and drift freely through it all. Lectures by philosopher Alan Watts accompany a goal-free, contemplative journey.

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