Elemental Box vs Sandbox Zombies
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elemental Box
Engage in a sandbox game focused on realistic physical simulations. Experiment with various shapes and materials to observe their unique interactions and transformations. This app offers a creative space for exploration and discovery through physics.
- Physical simulation
- Material interaction
- Shape manipulation
- Sandbox gameplay
- Real-time physics
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Physical simulation game that enjoys real physical operation of each shape and change in each material.
Sandbox Zombies
Engage in chaotic battle simulations by creating custom levels with diverse units and a vast arsenal. Pit humans against monsters like vampires, werewolves, and ninjas, or combine their abilities for unique combat scenarios. Enjoy a regularly updated, ad-free experience with an optional one-time purchase for the full version.
- Custom level creation
- Diverse unit types (humans, monsters, supernatural)
- Hybrid unit abilities
- Wide arsenal of weapons
- Silly and unique weapon options
- Regular updates
- Ad-free experience
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Sandbox Zombies is an action level editor. With zombies in it. Carefully set up your own elaborate scenarios, or just revel in causing chaos. With no innate goal, Sandbox Zombies trusts you to find fun in creativity and mischief. No ads and no internet required. Sandbox Systems: - Factions: Humans can fight humans too! There are 12 factions and you can edit who fights who. - Territory: Many units will try to claim territory for their faction, and this funnels units towards where the action is. - Modifiers: Units can be given a wide variety of modifiers such Invisibility, Armor, Vampirism, and much more. Many modifiers can be combined. - Spawners: Keep units respawning forever. So the battle can be endless while you just sit back and watch. - Electric Grid: Connect power sources (such as sensors and solar panels) to powered terrain (such as turrets, doors, spawners, lures, capture points, and more) to turn them on, or even make a certain faction control them. - Ground Mess: Bullet casings, scorch marks from explosions, and (depending on your settings) blood and guts from the injured will gradually paint the floor. You can wipe it clean by hand. - Day/Night Cycle: A Sun and Moon orbit the level separately, and can affect some units and terrain. - Offline Level Sharing: The entire sandbox data can be encoded into text for easy no-internet-required cross-platform sharing. - Controller Support: Optionally plug in a controller to take over any number of units and turrets at once and control them in the style of a twin stick shooter. Hand the controller to a friend and that's asymmetric local multiplayer. Support for multiple controllers is planned. Sandbox Content: - Normal Weapons: Shotguns, Rocket Launchers, Uzis, Miniguns, Smgs, Assault Rifles, Snipers, Revolvers, Flamethrowers, Swords - Silly Weapons too: Teleporter Guns, Paintball Guns, Frost Thrower, Zombification-Injector Guns, Braimwormifiers - Units: Humans, Ghouls, Mummies, Skeletons, Witches, Demons, Angels, Ninjas, Ghosts. And most of those can also be either Werewolves or Vampires on top of that! And zombified on top of that! - Terrain: Turrets, Crates, Explosive Crates, Sandbags, Barbed Wire, Mud, Fog, Doors, Lures, Sensors, Capture Points, Solar Panels - Units can be given extra modifiers: Metal Armor, Wings, Invincibility, Invisibility, Regeneration, Being On Fire, Being Frozen, Locust Breath, Emergency Teleport, Divinity, Brainworms, Vampirism, Lycanthropy, Zombification - And much more! There's just a one-time purchase for extra content, but the basic game is free so jump in and start causing chaos!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Elemental Box at none against Sandbox Zombies's 2. Sandbox Zombies's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 months). On price, rating and device support 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 Zombies sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Elemental Box asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Elemental Box against 4.3 for Sandbox Zombies. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sandbox Zombies has 324 ratings behind it against 63, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Elemental Box's written reviews are positive against 84% of Sandbox Zombies's.
Elemental Box ships an update every 4 months, Sandbox Zombies every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Elemental Box | Sandbox Zombies |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (63 ratings) | 4.3 (324 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.1% of reviews | 83.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 63 | 324 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | DAN-BALL | MOSS RED LLC |
Customer experience
Elemental Box
Sandbox Zombies
Bugs and requests
Elemental Box
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Sandbox Zombies
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes and freezes when playing for extended periods
- Inability to restore premium purchases after reinstallation
- Spawner and control issues when reaching entity limit
Requested features
7 requests- Add more weapons and units
- Implement unit control and customization
- Increase map size and entity limit
- Introduce destructible terrain and buildings
- Add sound effects and background music
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- Implement save/load functionality
- Add vehicles and transportation options
In-app purchases
Elemental Box
No in-app purchases
Sandbox Zombies
- Sandbox Zombies Unlocked$4.99
- Sandbox Zombies Premium$4.99
Questions
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