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2012PC55 % positive

The Sandbox is a 2D sandbox where over 200 interacting physics elements let you build worlds, pixel art, chain reactions and electric circuits. You can craft elaborate contraptions or simply play with the physics.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting
  • Pixel art
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

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Poly Bridge

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2016PEGI 3PCNintendo Switch91 % positive8.19 €

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A physics-based bridge-building puzzler where you design structures on a budget so vehicles can cross safely. The sandbox and Steam Workshop support offer nearly endless levels and room to experiment.

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Sandboxels

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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.

Tile Cities

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A relaxed city-building puzzle where you arrange randomly generated city tiles into attractive maps, matching colors and connecting tram lines. A creative mode lets you build freely without limits.

Townscaper

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Townscaper is a goal-free, relaxing building toy: place a few colored blocks and a clever algorithm turns them into charming seaside towns full of arches, stairways and gardens.

TheoTown

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TheoTown is a relaxed city-building simulation where you grow your own metropolis step by step. You plan roads, neighborhoods and infrastructure and watch your city come alive.

WorldBox

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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

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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.

Tiny Glade

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A relaxing building toy where you shape charming castles and dioramas with no goals, combat or pressure, while the game procedurally fills in every lovely detail around your doodles.

Engare

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Engare is a meditative puzzle toy about movement and geometry, where you build simple machines and watch their repeating motions unfold. Part puzzle, part drawing tool, it invites you to let your geometric imagination run free.

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