Sandbox XL vs Pixel Creator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sandbox XL
Engage in a fun, physics-based sandbox game where you can interact with numerous elements like water, magma, and fire. Simulate natural phenomena to create volcanoes, lakes, and geysers, and enjoy experimenting with the laws of nature.
- Physics-based sandbox gameplay
- Interact with water, magma, acid, sand, fire, gunpowder, oil, wood
- Create volcanoes, lakes, seas, geysers
- Simulate physical phenomena
- Experiment with nature's laws
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Have fun with Sandbox XL an addictive physics-based sandbox style game. You can interact with various elements such as water, magma, acid, sand, fire, gunpowder, oil, wood and more. Create volcanoes, lakes, seas, geysers by simulating physical phenomena and enjoying yourself with the nature's laws.
Pixel Creator
Explore a 2D physics sandbox with over 430 elements, including liquids, life, and machines. Create living ecosystems, trigger chain reactions, and unlock hundreds of recipes. Play fully offline with no ads or data collection.
- 430+ elements and 14 categories
- Realistic physics engine
- Living ecosystems and chain reactions
- Pre-made scenes
- Discovery Codex with recipes
- Offline play
- Goals and challenges
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Pixel Creator is a 2D pixel physics sandbox. Drop sand, water, lava, plants, animals and 430+ elements onto the canvas and watch them flow, burn, freeze, grow and react. - 430 elements across 14 categories — terrain, liquids, life, powders, energy, nuclear, weapons, machines and more - Real physics: gravity, density, temperature, pressure, fire and chain reactions - Living ecosystems: food chains, pollination, decomposition — and a human-form zombie outbreak you can fight with fire or a vaccine - Ready-made scenes: forest pond, coral reef, village, rainy wetland, zombie street - Discovery Codex: place elements and trigger reactions to unlock them — hundreds of recipes to find - Goals & challenges to chase - Heat / state views, save slots, undo, sound and haptics - Fully offline. No account, no ads, no data collection — everything runs on your device Free to play. A one-time "Full Version" unlock opens every element, scene and challenge.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pixel Creator at 5.0 against Sandbox XL's 3.7. Pixel Creator also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Sandbox XL's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Sandbox XL sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pixel Creator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pixel Creator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sandbox XL has 53 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sandbox XL ships an update every 3 weeks, Pixel Creator every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sandbox XL | Pixel Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Raffaele Amuso | 云飞 张 |
In-app purchases
Sandbox XL
- Remove ad$1.99
Pixel Creator
- Full Version$1.99









