Games like s&box
If s&box is your kind of game, the closest matches are nanos world™, Minigame Madness and Modiverse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its controller compatibility, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →s&box is a Source 2-powered sandbox platform for creating, sharing, and playing user-generated game modes. Developed and published by Facepunch Studios, it offers development tools for building custom experiences across action, sports, strategy, and adventure genres. Players can access a workshop of community creations alongside features including sandbox building, physics systems, Source 2 engine modding, AI content filtering, and a subscription model for creators. Players describe the Source 2 engine as a next-gen AAA toolkit and highlight deep custom game mode creation as a key draw, noting platform appeal for solo developers. The platform is currently priced at $19.99 USD and is not supported on Steam Deck. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging, and contemplative, with the title holding a 47% positive rating from 2314 Steam reviews.
About s&box: Our spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, this is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine. Play, create, and share games, explore community creations, and experience endless sandbox fun with powerful modern tools.
Players who liked s&box also play
Steam players who put hours into s&box also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
nanos world™
WHY THIS
Top pick for s&box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with s&box.
The next-generation open-world multiplayer sandbox. Play community-made game modes, create addons with Lua scripting, import custom assets from Unreal Engine 5, and host your own dedicated servers for hundreds of players!
Minigame Madness
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for s&box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with s&box.
Minigame Madness is a high-difficulty multiplayer party game for 1-16 players online. Compete with friends or strangers in an ever-growing collection of frantic minigames to unlock shiny badges, design stylish outfits & create awesome condos! BOTS coming 2026!
Modiverse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for s&box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with s&box.
An open multiplayer sandbox game; includes tools, props, levels, NPCs, character models, game-modes and much more! Make your own using our mod kit!
Source Code
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for s&box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with s&box.
"Source Code" is a large-scale multiplayer online and LAN FPS/TPS game set in the backdrop of World War III. It features building and portal systems, a comprehensive Zombie DLC, and a wide array of firearms and equipment for competitive shooting.
Sicham Universe : Let's Sicham Today!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for s&box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with s&box.
Sicham Universe is a large-scale online party game built specifically for audience participation streams. Streamers and viewers gather in the same space to play races, survival games, team battles, quizzes, and other real-time minigames together.
Finding Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for s&box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with s&box.
A zombie shooter where you can build your base and craft items to help you survive.
双线交锋：收获日
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for s&box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with s&box.
are you ready? Soldiers, take up your weapons and let your footprints cover the harvest battlefield! This is a very hard core game, independently developed by sun Shen game studio
Portable Ops
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for s&box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with s&box.
In POPS, every bullet fired pushes you further into the chaos of war. The story-driven campaign throws you into the boots of an elite operative. Fight through a series of intense missions, face overwhelming odds, unexpected betrayals, and brutal firefights where only the strongest survive.
Reviewers mention these as similar to s&box
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Primordio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of s&box cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with s&box.
Survive the void. Control a wisp of pure energy in this roguelite bullet-hell survival game. Chain lightning through swarms of primordial entities, level up with powerful upgrades, and fight to stay alive long enough to learn the secrets of... PRIMORDIO
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Reviewers of s&box cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with s&box.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with s&box.
Reviewers of s&box cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with s&box.
The Prince of Persia, a seasoned warrior, returns from the Island of Time to Babylon with his love, Kaileena. Instead of the peace that he longs for, he finds his homeland ravaged by war and the kingdom turned against him.
VRChat
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with s&box.
Reviewers of s&box cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Sports and Adventure with s&box.
Join our growing community as you explore, play, and help craft the future of social VR. Create worlds and custom avatars. Welcome to VRChat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below s&box at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under s&box on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with s&box.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under s&box on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with s&box.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under s&box on Steam right now. Shares Action with s&box.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under s&box on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with s&box.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under s&box on Steam right now. Shares Action with s&box.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with s&box.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with s&box.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with s&box.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with s&box.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with s&box.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with s&box.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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More from Facepunch Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Facepunch Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Rust
WHY THIS
Another title from Facepunch Studios, the studio behind s&box. Shares Action and Indie with s&box.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Another title from Facepunch Studios, the studio behind s&box. Shares Indie and Simulation with s&box.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Clatter
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with s&box.
Another title from Facepunch Studios, the studio behind s&box. Shares Strategy and Indie with s&box.
Create and command your own customizable squads of fighting robots in this turn-based, arena tactics game.
Frequently asked about s&box
- Does s&box work on Steam Deck?
- s&box is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does s&box cost?
- s&box is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does s&box have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — s&box supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to s&box?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside s&box are nanos world™, Minigame Madness, Modiverse.
- Who developed s&box?
- s&box was developed by Facepunch Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on s&box.
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