Sandbox Zombies vs Useless box simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Useless box simulator
Engage in a unique anti-stress simulation where you flip switches, only for the intelligent box to flip them back. Earn fame points as the box playfully mocks you with its own language.
- Anti-stress simulation
- Interactive switch gameplay
- Intelligent AI box
- Fame point system
- Box can talk and swear
- Unique gameplay mechanics
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This game is an anti-stress simulator. You need to turn on the switches in any order, and the box will turn them off itself, while you gain fame points. However, the box has artificial intelligence and can make fun of you. The box can also talk and even swear, but in its own language.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Sandbox Zombies at none against Useless box simulator's shown. Sandbox Zombies also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 months). Useless box simulator's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 and Useless box simulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Useless box simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sandbox Zombies has 324 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Sandbox Zombies's written reviews are positive against 50% of Useless box simulator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sandbox Zombies ships an update every 11 days, Useless box simulator every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sandbox Zombies | Useless box simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (324 ratings) | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 324 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | MOSS RED LLC | Dzmitry Smirnou |
Customer experience
Sandbox Zombies
Useless box simulator
Bugs and 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
Useless box simulator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sandbox Zombies
- Sandbox Zombies Unlocked$4.99
- Sandbox Zombies Premium$4.99
Useless box simulator
- Permanently VIP status$0.99
Questions
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