Comparison

Simple Sandbox 2 vs Melon Craft

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Simple Sandbox 2

Engage in a free, open-world sandbox game where you can build, create, and explore alone or with friends. Design your character, construct anything from houses to fortresses, and enjoy action-packed combat or thrilling races with a variety of vehicles.

Highlights
  • Multiplayer and single-player modes
  • Physics-based object manipulation
  • Character customization
  • World creation and building
  • Combat with various weapons
  • Vehicle racing and customization
  • Diverse collection of items and maps
Features
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Simple Sandbox 2 is a continuation of the popular online sandbox. Play alone or with friends. Best free construction sandbox game. The best free first-person and third-person sandbox building game featuring two modes: single player and multiplayer. Excellent physics, including mechanics, which is responsible for all kinds of manipulation of various game objects. Enjoy creating your own REAL TIME WORLD thanks to our sandbox simulator. Create your character, play and enjoy the simulator alone or with friends. Interested in creating a world from scratch? You to us. Do you want to connect to an already created world? Simple Sandbox 2 will give you this opportunity too. Help your friends create, build various structures, houses, cities, entire fortresses. Do you want to shoot, fight? Choose your favorite weapon from the weapons and attack, arrange fights without rules and prove to your opponent that you are cooler! Do you like racing? Together with your friends, you can build a track, choose a vehicle and drive all night in cars. The simulator allows you to choose the best transport, be it a motorcycle or an airplane. Yes, robots, helicopters, tanks, interesting items for creating various structures, space planes, various weapons for shooting, many fascinating fantastic maps - all this is just a small part of what awaits YOU in our online game - a FREE sandbox. Ask a friend to rate your virtual world by inviting him to the game. Together with you, we are improving our online simulator with each regular update. We ask EVERYONE of you to leave feedback in the comments in the form of feedback with suggestions for updating the game and improving it. Show your creativity here and now! With Simple Sandbox 2 you have unlimited imagination! If you have any problems with the game, be sure to write to us, we will be very grateful: email: kkresh95dev@gmail.com discord: https://discord.com/invite/bbdyN84 vkontakte: https://vk.com/sandbox_experimental facebook: https://facebook.com/MadnessGamesOfficial twitter: https://twitter.com/MaddnesGames Join us to create unique WORLDS, improving them with each update released.

About

Melon Craft

Engage in a physics-driven sandbox where you can build, destroy, and create chaotic simulations with ragdoll characters and interactive objects. Experiment with weapons, explosives, and adjustable physical parameters for dynamic and unpredictable gameplay.

Highlights
  • Physics-based ragdoll sandbox
  • Interactive characters and weapons
  • Realistic destruction and collapse
  • Adjustable physical parameters
  • Grid-based building
  • Multitouch controls
Features
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Melon Craft: Ragdoll Sandbox is a physics-based sandbox game where you can build, destroy, fight, experiment, and create your own chaotic simulations. Play with ragdoll characters, weapons, blocks, tools, explosives, and interactive objects in a fully simulated world. Every movement, collision, impact, and destruction effect is driven by physics, making each experiment feel dynamic and unpredictable. Build structures with grid-based placement, then test their strength with weapons, explosions, pressure, and falling objects. Walls, blocks, and constructions can collapse under force, break into interactive fragments, and continue reacting inside the simulation. Use melee weapons, firearms, tools, and explosives to create physics-driven battles and destruction scenarios. Projectiles, recoil, particles, impact marks, and object reactions are all part of the sandbox system. Customize the world in real time by adjusting gravity, scale, force, object behavior, and other physical parameters through an easy control panel. With full multitouch support, you can move the camera, drag objects, build, fight, and experiment more smoothly. Ragdoll characters react dynamically to damage, impacts, and environmental forces. When multiple characters are present, combat situations can emerge naturally, creating spontaneous sandbox battles. A lightweight interactive tutorial is built directly into the world. A physical tutorial object demonstrates basic controls and can be ignored, moved, or destroyed at any time. Features: • Physics-based ragdoll sandbox gameplay • Interactive characters, weapons, blocks, and tools • Realistic destruction and structure collapse • Melee weapons, firearms, projectiles, and explosives • Adjustable gravity, force, scale, and object behavior • Grid-based building and construction • Pixel-style particles, impact effects, and persistent marks • Full multitouch controls for smoother interaction • Emergent combat and unpredictable experiments • Interactive in-world tutorial object Melon Craft: Ragdoll Sandbox is a complete physics playground where every action can lead to a new result. Build something stable, destroy it with force, start a ragdoll battle, or simply experiment with the simulation. Privacy Policy: https://swell.kz/privacy_policy Terms & Conditions: https://swell.kz/terms_and_conditions

Screenshots

Simple Sandbox 24 screens
Melon Craft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Melon Craft at 4.2 against Simple Sandbox 2's 3.9. Melon Craft also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Simple Sandbox 2's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 52) and review sentiment (59% vs 50%). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Sandbox 2 sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Melon Craft sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Melon Craft holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Sandbox 2 has 1.2K ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Simple Sandbox 2's written reviews are positive against 50% of Melon Craft's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Sandbox 2 ships an update monthly, Melon Craft every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Simple Sandbox 2 versus Melon Craft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Sandbox 2Melon Craft
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (1.2K ratings)4.2 (52 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K — better52
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size837 MB276 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperIhor PidhainyiSWELL GAMES, TOO

Customer experience

Simple Sandbox 2

All ratings1,222 ratings
Positive70.5%
Neutral7.3%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews953 reviews
Positive59.0%
Neutral11.2%
Negative29.8%

Melon Craft

All ratings52 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral9.6%
Negative13.5%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative30.0%

Bugs and requests

Simple Sandbox 2

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Invisible props and cars
  • Disconnection issues
  • Ads not closable
  • Purchases not working
  • Saving issues
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  • Glitches with trains and boats

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add brake lights and turn signals
  • Add AI traffic
  • Add ability to switch accounts
  • Add working missiles and building destruction physics
  • Add more trains (Shinkansen, etc.)
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  • Add more vehicles (tanks, boats, etc.)
  • Add weapon attachments and customization
  • Add NPCs, animals, and weather effects
  • Add Among Us mode
  • Add zombies and more monsters
  • Add football/soccer mode
  • Improve multiplayer server stability and anti-cheat

Melon Craft

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Simple Sandbox 2

Subscriptions1
  • Vip Account$2.991 Month
One-time9
  • Game Money +80000$1.19
  • Crystal Money 80$1.19
  • Crystal Money +180$2.19
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  • Crystal Money 300$3.19
  • Apocalypse Interiors$3.99
  • Ukraine Army Pack$5.99
  • Crystal Money +1000$8.19
  • Game Money +1000000$8.19
  • Apocalypse_pack$11.49
1 purchases

Melon Craft

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Pass$7.997 Days

Questions

Is Simple Sandbox 2 free?
Simple Sandbox 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Melon Craft free?
Melon Craft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Sandbox 2 or Melon Craft?
Melon Craft is rated higher. Simple Sandbox 2 averages 3.9 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Melon Craft averages 4.2 from 52 ratings.
Do Simple Sandbox 2 or Melon Craft have ads?
Both Simple Sandbox 2 and Melon Craft show ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Sandbox 2 or Melon Craft?
Simple Sandbox 2 ships an update monthly, and Melon Craft every 2 weeks. Most recently, Simple Sandbox 2 was updated on November 7, 2026 and Melon Craft on November 7, 2026.

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