Sandboxels
Worth it · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Runs on Windows, macOS.
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
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 $0.59. That was May 2025. Its cuts run 29 percent off as a rule. There have been 8 in the 17 months tracked, about 9 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends (free, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Sand:box ($1.99, scores 75).
This site sampled 356 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 288 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
Players
47 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 19:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Sandboxels scores 77/100 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/3664820/sandboxelsReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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