The Sandbox
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.9h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $5.54/hr
- Reviews
- 55% of 574 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2846 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
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...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 1.5 must be supported by your video card, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
16 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 407 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SimAirport ($24.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe! (free, scores 0).
More about The Sandbox
Inside the two-hour refund window, 29 percent of the 173 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.9 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 6.6 times as long.
The drop-off
79% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
The Sandbox is a creative simulation title developed and published by PIXOWL INC. and released on Steam as a PC adaptation of the studio's earlier mobile hit. The game belongs to the sandbox and physics simulation genre, placing players in control of a virtual environment where they can experiment with a large variety of elements that interact according to simulated natural rules. Rather than focusing on a...
1 more review, not recommended
Poorly optimized and just overall not that interesting of a game. Also like 25% of the achievements are broken and don't pop upon completion. Game is worth $0. Just a poorly ported mobile game
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Sandbox scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/265810/the-sandboxReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.