Sandboxels

About Sandboxels Game

Sandboxels is a falling-sand simulation game where you use hundreds of interactive elements to create your own pixel-based experiments. This online sandbox game covers much more than sand and water. Powders, liquids, gases, fire, plants, food, machines, and other materials behave according to properties such as gravity, temperature, density, and conductivity. Different combinations can produce chemical reactions, changes in state, combustion, electricity, or unexpected chain reactions. You can grow small ecosystems, cook ingredients, test machines, experiment with chemicals, or simply create chaos. This freedom makes Sandboxels feel like a compact physics and chemistry laboratory where discovering what different materials do together is the main attraction.

Key Features of Sandboxels

• Hundreds of Elements: Experiment with powders, liquids, gases, living organisms, food, machines, energy, and more.
• Physics-Based Simulation: Watch particles fall, flow, spread, burn, and respond to surrounding materials.
• Temperature & Chemistry: Heat, cool, melt, freeze, ignite, and combine substances to discover different reactions.
• Electricity & Machines: Connect components such as wires, batteries, heaters, sensors, and other devices.
• Open-Ended Experiments: Create ecosystems, cook food, trigger explosions, or invent your own experiments without a required goal.

How to Play Sandboxels

There is no single correct way to play Sandboxels. Choose an element, add it to the canvas, and use other materials or tools to see how the simulation responds.

Experiment with Elements, Physics, and Chemical Reactions

Begin by selecting materials from categories such as powders, liquids, gases, life, food, energy, or machines. Click or drag across the canvas to add pixels, then let their individual properties take effect.

Sand falls and forms piles, liquids seek open spaces, and fire can spread through combustible materials. Temperature adds another layer to the simulation: substances may melt, freeze, evaporate, burn, or transform when exposed to extreme heat or cold. Mixing materials can also create entirely new substances—for example, water and dirt can produce mud.

You can keep adding elements to build more complicated systems. Introduce plants and water to experiment with life, connect electrical components, cook ingredients with heat, or combine volatile materials and watch a small reaction develop into something much larger.

Sandboxels Controls

PC

• Left Click + Drag: Draw the selected element on the canvas
• Mouse: Choose elements, categories, settings, and tools
• Heat / Cool: Increase or decrease pixel temperature
• Shock: Apply electricity
• Mix: Mix nearby particles
• Drag: Move existing materials
• Erase: Remove unwanted pixels
• Smash: Break or disturb applicable materials

Mobile

• Tap: Select an element or tool
• Touch + Drag: Draw elements and interact with the canvas

Tips for Better Sandbox Experiments

• Test a Few Pixels First: Small samples make it easier to see exactly how two materials react.
• Control the Temperature: Try heating and cooling the same substance to discover different states and reactions.
• Separate Reactive Materials: Walls and barriers can prevent fire, liquids, or chemicals from spreading before you're ready.
• Combine Natural and Machine Elements: Mixing electricity, heat, liquids, and mechanical components can produce more complex simulations.
• Change One Variable at a Time: If you want to understand a reaction, alter one material or condition before repeating the experiment.

Choose your elements, set up an experiment, and discover what happens next in Sandboxels today.

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