Sand:box
Worth it · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($1.39)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($0.99)
- Last discount ended
- 31 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 800x600 minimum resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support, 31 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 22 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. People Playground ($9.99, scores 97) and Gourdlets ($4.99, scores 83) both outscore it.
This site sampled 405 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 730 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 520 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Sand:box scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2179380/sand-boxReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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