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.
ONLY ON PC: Make 4X BIGGER worlds - You have 4x times more space to craft whatever you like in the CREATE mode! Plus all elements are immediately accessible, there are no limitations to your imagination!
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 crafting simulation to the next level!
Play with basic elements ranging from simple water, stone, sand, wood, glass, lava, fire, to more complex: electricity, metal, virus, antivirus,heater, cooler, lasers, pipes, gems, sensors, leds TNT, C4, crosswire, conveyor belt, music instruments etc.
That's not all, The Sandbox features also a wide range of casual elements, just for fun! Fish, bees, lion, flamingo, humans, zombies, robots, aliens, dinosaurs, monuments, tanks, cars, trucks!
A few thrilling features, exclusively on the PC version:
Search the gallery to see the creations of other players (1,000,000 worlds and climbing!)
Rate other players’ worlds and add in your own elements to give them a surprise effect
The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access.
ONLY ON PC: Make 4X BIGGER worlds - You have 4x times more space to craft whatever you like in the CREATE mode! Plus all elements are immediately accessible, there are no limitations to your imagination!
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 crafting simulation to the next level!
CRAFT, PLAY AND SHARE!
The Sandbox is a unique world building & crafting game featuring over 200+ physics elements presented in 2D pixel blocks that can interact with each others. Players can craft amazing worlds, create pixel art, chain reactions, chiptune music, advanced contraptions, electric circuits or just play with physics.Play with basic elements ranging from simple water, stone, sand, wood, glass, lava, fire, to more complex: electricity, metal, virus, antivirus,heater, cooler, lasers, pipes, gems, sensors, leds TNT, C4, crosswire, conveyor belt, music instruments etc.
That's not all, The Sandbox features also a wide range of casual elements, just for fun! Fish, bees, lion, flamingo, humans, zombies, robots, aliens, dinosaurs, monuments, tanks, cars, trucks!
Steam Exclusive Features
The Steam PC version of The Sandbox is a Premium adaptation of Pixowl’s famous HIT! No microtransactions, All Elements are unlocked and immediately accessible, as well as 15 original campaigns to explore: Initial Story, Dinosaurs, Pixel Art, Music, User-Created 1 & 2, Lasers and pipes, Contraptions, Humans, Zombies, Robots, Alien Invasion, Retro Gaming, Ninja and last but not least, the Ecology / Natural Disasters!A few thrilling features, exclusively on the PC version:
- Make 4X BIGGER worlds - You have 4x times more space to craft whatever you like in the CREATE mode!
- All elements are immediately accessible, there are no limitations to your imagination!
- Ultra-precise controls with mouse, trackpad or touch support (for touch-screen only)
- Several keyboard shortcuts to create worlds faster!
- Windowed display or fullscreen mode
- Cloud saving of your progression online and syncing across multiple PCs via with Steam Cloud
- Cross-platform compatibility of your worlds: create on PC, view on Mobile or vice-versa
Game Features
- Over 200 elements you can combine for different physical effects
- A classic/retro 8-bit interface
- Easy to understand tutorials get you started building worlds
- 15 Individual Campaigns: Initial Story, Dinosaurs, Pixel Art, Music, User-Created 1 & 2, Lasers and pipes, Contraptions, Humans, Zombies, Robots, Alien Invasion, Retro Gaming, Ninja and last but not least, the Ecology / Natural Disasters!
- 250 puzzle Levels in total -- dozens of hours of mind challenging content for your brain!
- Compose your own chiptune melodies you can play in-game. You may choose the following instruments: Note, Guitar, Bass, Trumpet and Drums
- Add advanced elements to your worlds:
- Vehicles -- Cars, tanks and trucks are all available for your use within your world!
- Contraptions -- LEDs, conveyor belts, lasers, pipes and multiple sensors are all available to bring your world into the age of technology!
- Bring life to your worlds: Add humans and use Magic Job Powders to turn them into miners, builders, hunters, woodcutters or… ZOMBIES!
- Zombies -- Turn your mild-mannered human into a brain eating beast that wreaks havoc on your world!
- Robots -- Have robots taken over your world? You better obey your metal masters, puny human animals!
- Ninja & Avatar -- Play with the controllable elements: Ninja, Avatar, Snake… and create your video game levels!
- Add dinosaurs and protect them from extinction (or, recreate the BIG BANG and wipe them from the face of the Earth - the choice is yours!)
- Add animals, fish and fireflies to your worlds and watch as their behavior creates “natural drama” that rivals any reality TV show!
- Use our decorations and add awesome real-life wonders to your landscapes: The Eiffel Tower, a crashed UFO, the pyramids, futuristic buildings and a giant robot are all available at your fingertips!
- Use TNT or C4 to wreak havoc with powerful explosions or light up your sky with meteors and fireworks
- Vehicles -- Cars, tanks and trucks are all available for your use within your world!
Share your creations with the world
Share your favorite universe in The Sandbox’s Online Gallery ()Search the gallery to see the creations of other players (1,000,000 worlds and climbing!)
Rate other players’ worlds and add in your own elements to give them a surprise effect
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 504578
Up to date
Build 504578
Version 1.9.10
Jan 27, 2015
Hello Sandboxers!
Here comes the update 1.9.10 which adds 3 new campaigns -- 33 levels in total -- to complete!
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+ 3 new campaigns to play at:
- Farm Life: 15 levels to build the best Farm ever!
- Sandmix 1: 9 levels of mixed genres: gaming, pixel art, music, action, puzzle... Can you solve them all?
- Sandmix 2: 9 additional levels of mixed genres, showing the most recent Humans abilities.
+ Many Bugs Fixes
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
View on Steam
Here comes the update 1.9.10 which adds 3 new campaigns -- 33 levels in total -- to complete!
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/265810/ss_fabf72c9c8277ac58024eaede814433cfbfeddad.600x338.jpg?t=1420817295
What's New in version 1.9.10?
+ 3 new campaigns to play at:
- Farm Life: 15 levels to build the best Farm ever!
- Sandmix 1: 9 levels of mixed genres: gaming, pixel art, music, action, puzzle... Can you solve them all?
- Sandmix 2: 9 additional levels of mixed genres, showing the most recent Humans abilities.
+ Many Bugs Fixes
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
Build 488635
Version 1.9.07
Jan 9, 2015
Hello Sandboxers!
Happy New Year 2015 to you all!
Here comes the update 1.9.07 which adds 22 new elements to play with in the CREATE mode!
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22 new elements to play with in the CREATE mode:
- 2 Human Job Powders: Farmer and Fisherman
- 5 Buildings: Bakery, Restaurant, Space Colony, Jewelry and Tree House!
- Farm life: Corn, Pumpkins, Wheat, Tractor, Chicken, Fox, Crow, Scarecrow and E-drain
- New Blueprints: Haystack, Silo, Barn, Windmill, Bullseye and Chicken Pen
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
View on Steam
Happy New Year 2015 to you all!
Here comes the update 1.9.07 which adds 22 new elements to play with in the CREATE mode!
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/265810/ss_fabf72c9c8277ac58024eaede814433cfbfeddad.600x338.jpg?t=1420817295
What's New in version 1.9.07?
22 new elements to play with in the CREATE mode:
- 2 Human Job Powders: Farmer and Fisherman
- 5 Buildings: Bakery, Restaurant, Space Colony, Jewelry and Tree House!
- Farm life: Corn, Pumpkins, Wheat, Tractor, Chicken, Fox, Crow, Scarecrow and E-drain
- New Blueprints: Haystack, Silo, Barn, Windmill, Bullseye and Chicken Pen
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
Build 405544
Version 1.9.05
Oct 10, 2014
Hello sandboxers!
Here comes the update 1.9.05 which should address stability issues of the game as we reduced the footprint of the game on the graphic memory.
The game should run faster and requires less RAM to run now!
New Features & improvements
- New shortcuts for keyboard navigation: use TAB key and SHIFT+TAB to move up and down in menus
- Faster performance
- Reduced memory footprint
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
View on Steam
Here comes the update 1.9.05 which should address stability issues of the game as we reduced the footprint of the game on the graphic memory.
The game should run faster and requires less RAM to run now!
What's New in version 1.9.05?
New Features & improvements
- New shortcuts for keyboard navigation: use TAB key and SHIFT+TAB to move up and down in menus
- Faster performance
- Reduced memory footprint
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
Build 394607
Version 1.9.02
Sep 27, 2014
Hello sandboxers!
Here comes a huge 2-in-1 "ECOLOGY" + "NINJA" MASSIVE update for The Sandbox on Steam
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Become a true Ninja master with this exciting update featuring the 17 Japanese levels of the Shinobi Adventure where you’ll encounter many dangers!
Play also the Ecology Campaign through 20 levels, you’ll have to protect our planet by solving environmental puzzles!
Discover 24 new elements, related to Ninja or environment:
The Sun Stone to create a movement detection laser, the pink or white ninjas,best shinobi friends and 8 new wonderful Japanese blueprints to decorate your worlds.
Check also the natural elements : Disasters such as Tornado, Earthquake and Tsunami, Eruption and even the Nuke or the planet Earth 2 new Trees, Blue Whale, Salt and Sea Water!
2 new campaigns:
Over 25 new elements:
New Features & improvements
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
View on Steam
Here comes a huge 2-in-1 "ECOLOGY" + "NINJA" MASSIVE update for The Sandbox on Steam
http://i58.tinypic.com/289cs4n.png
http://i57.tinypic.com/121btjk.png
Become a true Ninja master with this exciting update featuring the 17 Japanese levels of the Shinobi Adventure where you’ll encounter many dangers!
Play also the Ecology Campaign through 20 levels, you’ll have to protect our planet by solving environmental puzzles!
Discover 24 new elements, related to Ninja or environment:
The Sun Stone to create a movement detection laser, the pink or white ninjas,best shinobi friends and 8 new wonderful Japanese blueprints to decorate your worlds.
Check also the natural elements : Disasters such as Tornado, Earthquake and Tsunami, Eruption and even the Nuke or the planet Earth 2 new Trees, Blue Whale, Salt and Sea Water!
What's New in version 1.9.02?
2 new campaigns:
- Sneak through 17 beautiful levels of the Ninja Campaign
- Protect the planet along the 20 levels of the Ecology Campaign!
Over 25 new elements:
- Discover the new Ninja elements
- Try also the new Planet Earth elements
New Features & improvements
- Select your language from Game Properties among the 5 available: English, French, Spanish, German and Brazilian/Portuguese.
- A lot of Bug fixes and level corrections!
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
Build 343110
Sep 2, 2014
Hello sandboxers!
Hope you had a great summer time!
We are busy working on the second major update of The Sandbox on Steam, which will includes both Ninja and Ecology related contents.
Meanwhile, we are publishing this week a minor update that fixes a couple of bugs and improves overall stability of the game.
Stay tuned!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
View on Steam
Hope you had a great summer time!
We are busy working on the second major update of The Sandbox on Steam, which will includes both Ninja and Ecology related contents.
Meanwhile, we are publishing this week a minor update that fixes a couple of bugs and improves overall stability of the game.
Stay tuned!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
Build 338550
Jul 29, 2014
Hello sandboxers!
It’s been a while, let’s get down to this new 1.700 update.
We are still on our path to introduce exclusives features for the PC version, and controls are way better now!
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Check out below all the new stuff!
Steam Exclusives
▪ Steam achievements!
▪ New key Mapping:
- Navigate faster on the field!
- Navigate faster in menus!
- Control tanks and ninjas!
New Features
▪ Play the new User-Created 2 campaign: 10 levels of content created by the community!
▪ Improve your games and edit your levels with the 2 new Gaming elements (keyboard controllables)
=> Ninja, Avatar
▪ Several new backgrounds!
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
View on Steam
It’s been a while, let’s get down to this new 1.700 update.
We are still on our path to introduce exclusives features for the PC version, and controls are way better now!
http://i60.tinypic.com/wuotjq.png
Check out below all the new stuff!
What's New in 1.7.02?
Steam Exclusives
▪ Steam achievements!
▪ New key Mapping:
- Navigate faster on the field!
P : Pause/Unpause
A/D - LEFT/RIGHT - HORIZONTAL SCROLL : Move left/right when zoomed
W/S - UP/DOWN - VERTICAL SCROLL : Move up/down when zoomed- Navigate faster in menus!
1,2,3,4,5,6,7 : Element tabs (1 = Humans to 7 = Basic Elements)
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 : Brush sizes- Control tanks and ninjas!
A/D - LEFT/RIGHT : Move left/right
SPACEBAR : Action
New Features
▪ Play the new User-Created 2 campaign: 10 levels of content created by the community!
▪ Improve your games and edit your levels with the 2 new Gaming elements (keyboard controllables)
=> Ninja, Avatar
▪ Several new backgrounds!
Feel free to share your feedback with us!
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
Build 261543
May 12, 2014
Hello sandboxers!
We are busy working on the first major update of The Sandbox on Steam, which will include several cool modifications you requested:
- all Elements will be unlocked in Create Mode!
- removal of Restrictions to spawn more than 6 humans
and more contents:
- new Retro Gaming elements (Spaceship, Tron, Snake etc)
- a controllable Ninja element
- new Retro Gaming campaign of 12 levels
And of course, many other improvements!
STAY TUNED!!
Meanwhile, we published today a new minor update (v1.5.19) which incorporates the following changes:
Improvements
- +30,000 Mana for all players!
- Weather is OFF by default in Create Mode
- Rating popup display less often
- Game Tutorial is more visible
Bugs Fixed
- small glitch on Zoom Behaviour
- Infinite loading when no results for a search in Online Gallery
- Robots element counter refreshing
- Drag/Draw texts when you're in Zoom
- Vertical scroll with mouse wheel fixed
- Backgrounds corrupted after taking screenshot
Other Changes
- Steamworks SDK has been updated to 1.29
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
View on Steam
We are busy working on the first major update of The Sandbox on Steam, which will include several cool modifications you requested:
- all Elements will be unlocked in Create Mode!
- removal of Restrictions to spawn more than 6 humans
and more contents:
- new Retro Gaming elements (Spaceship, Tron, Snake etc)
- a controllable Ninja element
- new Retro Gaming campaign of 12 levels
And of course, many other improvements!
STAY TUNED!!
Meanwhile, we published today a new minor update (v1.5.19) which incorporates the following changes:
Improvements
- +30,000 Mana for all players!
- Weather is OFF by default in Create Mode
- Rating popup display less often
- Game Tutorial is more visible
Bugs Fixed
- small glitch on Zoom Behaviour
- Infinite loading when no results for a search in Online Gallery
- Robots element counter refreshing
- Drag/Draw texts when you're in Zoom
- Vertical scroll with mouse wheel fixed
- Backgrounds corrupted after taking screenshot
Other Changes
- Steamworks SDK has been updated to 1.29
Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team
Build 250495
May 5, 2014
Hello sandboxers!
We are reading all your comments and reviews of the game and will progressively improve the game based on your feedbacks!
Today, we published a new minor update (v1.5.17) which incorporates the following changes:
Improvements
- Fix on Full screen mode preserves aspect ratio in some resolutions
Other Changes
- Spanish translations corrections
Thank you for your support!
Pixowl Team
View on Steam
We are reading all your comments and reviews of the game and will progressively improve the game based on your feedbacks!
Today, we published a new minor update (v1.5.17) which incorporates the following changes:
Improvements
- Fix on Full screen mode preserves aspect ratio in some resolutions
Other Changes
- Spanish translations corrections
Thank you for your support!
Pixowl Team
Build 244500
Apr 25, 2014
Hello sandboxers!
We are keeping working hard every day to improve the game thanks to your feedback!
We're also trying to address all the issues you found.
We published today a new minor update (v1.5.16) which incorporates the following changes:
The major change is visual, where we decided to preserve the original pixel ratio when you are in fullscreen, adding borders to the left and right side if needed.
As you can see on these examples:
http://i58.tinypic.com/29590d0.png
http://i58.tinypic.com/rtgkea.png
Let us know your feedback and which display mode you prefer!
Improvements
- Full screen mode preserves aspect ratio and shows stone boarders instead of stretching screen.
- Clicking 'HD Only' filter now initiates a new search in the gallery.
- Right click to bring up context menus
- Scroll wheel and cursor arrows now work on Load World
Other Changes
- 'Tap's replaced with 'Click's in the text.
Thank you for your support!
Pixowl Team
View on Steam
We are keeping working hard every day to improve the game thanks to your feedback!
We're also trying to address all the issues you found.
We published today a new minor update (v1.5.16) which incorporates the following changes:
The major change is visual, where we decided to preserve the original pixel ratio when you are in fullscreen, adding borders to the left and right side if needed.
As you can see on these examples:
http://i58.tinypic.com/29590d0.png
http://i58.tinypic.com/rtgkea.png
Let us know your feedback and which display mode you prefer!
Improvements
- Full screen mode preserves aspect ratio and shows stone boarders instead of stretching screen.
- Clicking 'HD Only' filter now initiates a new search in the gallery.
- Right click to bring up context menus
- Scroll wheel and cursor arrows now work on Load World
Other Changes
- 'Tap's replaced with 'Click's in the text.
Thank you for your support!
Pixowl Team
Current Release
504578
Uploaded Apr 27, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
1 Ghz
RAM
512 MB RAM
GPU
OpenGL 1.5 must be supported by your video card
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .RAR file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run The Sandbox.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Size
40 MB
Build
504578
Password: cracked-games.org or 123
CRC32
180C22C3
SHA-256
2a128eda8073046f37cf04448503d529d3002ccb998479a98d4d32da236edfef
How: Right-click the downloaded file → 7-Zip / WinRAR → CRC SHA → compare with the values above.
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